A/RES/74/204
Commodities
30. Invites the President of the General Assembly to hold a one-day informal
interactive dialogue of the Assembly on commodity markets during the first half of
2020 to review world commodity trends and prospects and possible strategies for
economic and export diversification, as well as value addition for sustainable
development, particularly in commodity-dependent developing countries, with the
aim of sharing experiences and lessons learned, on a date and in a format to be decided
by the President of the Assembly;
31. Calls upon all relevant bodies, agencies, funds and programmes of the
United Nations system and other relevant intergovernmental, global, regional and
subregional organizations, in particular the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development and all relevant international financial and economic institutions,
within their respective mandates, to continue to address the issue of the low
industrialization and diversification of the economies of some commodity-dependent
developing countries in relation to the capacity of Member States to achieve all the
Sustainable Development Goals by 2030;
32. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-sixth session, in collaboration with the secretariat of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, an action-oriented report on the
implementation of the present resolution, with a particular emphasis on
recommendations and strategies for economic and export diversification, commodity
production and value addition for sustainable development, in line with the
implementation of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development, 16 and, in this regard, decides to include
in the provisional agenda of its seventy-sixth session, under the item entitled
“Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “Commodities”.
52nd plenary meeting
19 December 2019
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