A/RES/52/182 Page 3 9. Recognizes that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, having a comparative advantage in tackling trade-related development issues, should continue to facilitate the integration of developing countries and countries with economies in transition into the international trading system, in a complementary manner with the World Trade Organization, and to promote development through trade and investment in cooperation and coordination with the International Trade Centre, relevant institutions of the United Nations system and other international organizations; 10. Requests the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to continue, on the basis of the outcome of its ninth session, to identify and analyse the implications for development of issues relevant to investment, taking into account the interests of developing countries and bearing in mind the work undertaken by other organizations; 11. Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to continue, inter alia, to follow developments in the international trading system, in particular their implications for developing countries, to identify new opportunities arising from the implementation of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations agreements,5 and to assist developing countries to participate effectively in multilateral trade negotiations; II 12. Welcomes the outcome of the first Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held at Singapore from 9 to 13 December 1996, and its adoption of the Plan of Action for the Least Developed Countries; 13. Also welcomes the announcements by some developed and developing countries, at the High-level Meeting on Integrated Initiatives for Least Developed Countries' Trade Development, of new or additional measures on market access for the least developed countries, and recommends that a full report on the outcome of and follow-up to the Meeting be submitted to the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in May 1998; 14. Recognizes the importance of open regional economic integration in the creation of new opportunities for expanding trade and investment, and stresses the importance of those initiatives being in conformity with World Trade Organization rules, where applicable; 15. Stresses that, in the context of globalization and liberalization, there is need for the full integration of developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, and of countries with economies in transition, into the world economy, through, inter alia, improved market access for their exports, in accordance with the multilateral trade agreements; 16. Also stresses in this context the need for various measures to be taken by the international community, including increased trade-related technical assistance and human and institutional capacitybuilding for strengthening the supply capacity of exportable goods and services of developing countries, in particular the least developed countries, with a view to their full integration into the world economy; 17. Welcomes, in this regard, the recognition that the movement in the direction of greater openness for developing economies should be an orderly process backed by effective policies at the international and 5 See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GATT secretariat publication, Sales No. GATT/1994-7). /...