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UNITED
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General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/50/98
2 February 1996
Fiftieth session
Agenda item 95 (a)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/50/617/Add.1)]
50/98.
Ninth session of the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 1995 (XIX) of 30 December 1964, as amended,
1/ on the establishment of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development as an organ of the General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 47/183 of 22 December 1992 in which it, inter
alia, emphasized the importance of the Cartagena Commitment, 2/ adopted by
the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its eighth session,
held at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 8 to 25 February 1992,
Expressing its satisfaction with the early and unanimous agreement
reached by the Trade and Development Board, at the second part of its fortyfirst session, on the development-oriented provisional agenda for the ninth
session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 3/
pursuant to which, under the unifying theme "Promoting growth and sustainable
development in a globalizing and liberalizing world economy", the Conference
will be addressing the following topics:
(a)
1/
Development policies and strategies in an increasingly
See resolutions 2904 A (XXVII), 31/2 A and B and 34/3.
2/
See Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, Eighth Session, Report and Annexes (TD/364/Rev.1) (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.93.II.D.5), part one, sect. A.
3/
96-76405
See A/50/15 (Vol. I), chap. I, sect. A.
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