Special pledging conference of the United Nations Children's Fund

UN General Assembly, Special pledging conference of the United Nations Children's Fund, A/RES/3124, UN General Assembly, 13 December 1973, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1973/en/6949 [accessed 20 September 2024]
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XXVIII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE
3124. Special pledging conference of the United Nations Children's Fund

The General Assembly, Having considered the section of the report of the Economic and Social Council dealing with the United Nations Children's Fund,[1] Noting with approval the efforts of the United Nations Children's Fund to help developing countries to serve the needs of children and adolescents within the framework of a unified approach to economic and social development, Recognizing the important contribution which the United Nations Children's Fund is making to the achievement of the goals of the Second United Nations Development Decade, Bearing in mind the necessity of increasing the financial resources of the United Nations Children's Fund in order to enable it to meet more adequately the expanding needs for assistance by the Fund to basic services benefiting children in the developing countries, Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1709 (LIII) of 28 July 1972 and General Assembly resolution 3015 (XXVII) of 18 December 1972, in which the Council and the Assembly, inter alia, reiterated the appeal for increased contributions to the United Nations Children's Fund to enable it to reach its target figure of $100 million by 1975,

1. Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1821 (LV) of 9 August 1973;

2. Reaffirms its support for the policies of the United Nations Children's Fund and commends the Fund for its invaluable service to children in need over the past twenty-seven years;

3. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund, to convene during the twenty-ninth session of the General Assembly, in 1974, a special pledging conference for voluntary contributions to be made to the Fund in order to facilitate the attainment of the target figure of $100 million in the Fund's resources by 1975;

4. Appeals to Governments to extend their full cooperation in helping to make the special pledging conference of the United Nations Children's Fund a success.

2199th plenary meeting
13 December 1973
[1] Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/9003 and Corr.1), chap. VI, sect. D.
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