Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference
on Landlocked Developing Countries
A/RES/74/233
United Nations system and the relevant international and regional organizations to
continue to provide technical support, within their respective mandates, to the
landlocked developing countries in their efforts to mainstream the Vienna Programme
of Action and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 into their national
development strategies;
7.
Stresses that the harmonization, simplification and standardization of rules
and documentation should be promoted, including the full and effective
implementation of international conventions on transport and transit and bilateral,
subregional and regional agreements, and invites Member States that have not joined
the existing conventions to consider the possibility of accession;
8.
Calls upon the landlocked developing countries and transit countrie s, in a
coordinated manner, to develop and upgrade international transport and transit
corridors encompassing all modes of transportation, including roads, railroads, inland
waterways, ports and pipelines, to address the special development needs and
challenges of landlocked developing countries;
9.
Encourages multilateral financial and development institutions and
multilateral development banks, including regional banks, in collaboration with other
stakeholders, including the private sector, to make investments in addressing gaps in
renewable energy, information and communications technology, e -commerce, trade,
transport and transit-related regional infrastructure;
10. Calls for the full and timely implementation of the Agreement on Trade
Facilitation annexed to the Protocol amending the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing
the World Trade Organization, and in this regard urges members and relevant
international and regional organizations to continue to provide and enhance technical
and capacity-building assistance, particularly for the effective implementation of the
provisions of articles on the release and clearance of goods, border agency
cooperation, formalities connected with importation, exportation and transit, freedom
of transit and customs cooperation;
11. Also calls for renewed and strengthened partnerships to support
landlocked developing countries in diversifying their economic base and enhancing
value addition to their exports in order to eradicate poverty and achieve sustai nable,
inclusive and sustained economic growth;
12. Reiterates its invitation to development partners to provide targeted
technical and financial support, as appropriate, towards the implementation of the
specific actions listed in the Vienna Programme of Action;
13. Underlines that South-South and triangular cooperation are vital to the
landlocked developing countries, especially in the areas of productive capacity building, infrastructure, energy, science and technology, trade, investment and transit
transport cooperation, and in this regard highlights the importance of the secon d
High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation in addressing the
needs of countries in special situations;
14. Recognizes that landlocked developing countries and their transit country
neighbours need to effectively mobilize adequate do mestic and external resources for
the effective implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action, reaffirms that, for
all countries, public policies and the mobilization and effective use of domestic
resources, underlined by the principle of national owner ship, are central to the
common pursuit of sustainable development, including the implementation of the
Programme of Action, and also recognizes that international public finance plays an
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