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UNITED
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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/50/102
9 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 95 (d)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/50/617/Add.4)]
50/102.
United Nations system support for science and
technology in Africa
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the Vienna Programme of Action on Science and Technology for
Development, 1/ adopted by the United Nations Conference on Science and
Technology for Development and subsequently endorsed and reaffirmed by the
General Assembly,
Reaffirming also its resolution 46/151 of 18 December 1991, the annex to
which contains the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in
the 1990s, having as its priority objectives the accelerated transformation,
integration, diversification and growth of the African economies, in order to
strengthen them within the world economy,
Having considered the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled
"United Nations system support for science and technology in Africa", 2/ and
the conclusions and recommendations contained therein,
Recognizing the crucial significance of science and technology,
including the related information technologies, for planning, development and
decision-making in science and technology and the promotion of endogenous
capacity-building in science and technology in the process of growth and
1/
Report of the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for
Development, Vienna, 20-31 August 1979 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.79.I.21 and corrigenda), chap. VII.
2/
96-76477
A/50/125-E/1995/19, annex.
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