UN General Assembly Committee Approves Six Draft ResolutionsThe United Nations General Assembly will invite donor countries and multilateral financial and development institutions to continue to provide the landlocked countries in central Africa with financial and technical assistance to improve the transit environment.One of six draft resolutions and one draft decision, approved by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) of the 55th Session of the General Assembly Friday, says that the General Assembly will urge the UN system to continue studying possible ways of promoting more cooperative arrangements between landlocked states in central Africa and their transit developing neighbors. The draft resolution on strengthening the coordination of the mechanisms on the Commission for Science and Technology for Development, calls for providing the necessary resources to enable the commission to carry out better its mandate of assisting the developing countries with their national development efforts in the field of science and technology. The other four draft resolutions, approved by the Second Committee, are related to a call for support to the efforts of the development countries to intensify and expand industrial cooperation among themselves, and the implementation of the commitments and policies agreed upon in the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, a request for providing the necessary resources to UN Environment Program and a request that the UN University broaden the reach of its dissemination activities. |
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