A/RES/52/182 Page 5 Development, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Trade Organization, as task manager for the Commission on Sustainable Development; IV 25. Reaffirms the need to give priority to the problems facing the least developed countries, and reaffirms in particular that actions should be taken, as appropriate, to assist the least developed countries to maximize the potential opportunities and minimize the possible difficulties arising from the Uruguay Round agreements; 26. Urges Governments and concerned international organizations to implement fully and expeditiously the Ministerial Decision on Measures in Favour of the Least Developed Countries5 and to apply effectively the Ministerial Decision on Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least Developed and Net Food-importing Developing Countries,5 as well as the recommendations adopted at the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on the Mid-term Global Review of the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s8 and at the ninth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, as they relate to trade and trade-related issues of concern to the least developed countries; 27. Requests Governments, organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to take concrete measures to implement fully and as a matter of urgency the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s,9 including the measures and recommendations agreed upon at its mid-term review, especially those related to trade and development; 28. Welcomes the adoption of an integrated framework for trade-related technical assistance at the Highlevel Meeting on Integrated Initiatives for Least Developed Countries' Trade Development, convened by the World Trade Organization at Geneva on 27 and 28 October 1997, and invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to enhance further the effectiveness and efficiency of its trade-related technical assistance activities for the least developed countries in collaboration with the World Trade Organization, the International Trade Centre, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; 29. Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme to improve collaboration between the country-level programmes of the Conference for the least developed countries and the overall macroeconomic and sectoral policy dialogue in respect of those countries at the World Bank Consultative Group and United Nations Development Programme round-table meetings, bearing in mind General Assembly resolution 50/120 of 20 December 1995; 30. Stresses the need to give special attention, within the context of international cooperation on trade and development issues, to the implementation of the many international development commitments geared to meeting the special development needs and problems of small island developing States and of landlocked developing States, and to recognize that developing countries that provide transit services need adequate support in maintaining and improving their transit infrastructure; 31. Invites preference-giving countries to continue to improve and renew their Generalized System of Preferences schemes in keeping with the post-Uruguay Round trading system and with the objective of integrating developing countries, especially the least developed countries, into the international trading 8 See A/50/745. 9 Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II. /...