National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress
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10 December 1974
XXIX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
3273. National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress
1. Reaffirms that each State has the sovereign right to adopt the economic and social system which it regards appropriate for its own development;
2. Stresses the importance of internal democratic social and economic changes designed to safeguard national independence and to ensure a speedy improvement of the well-being of the population;
3. Reaffirms the importance of the right of every State to exercise its permanent sovereignty over all its riches, natural resources and economic activities for the purpose of achieving economic and social progress;
4. Further reaffirms the right of every State to carry out social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress, including nationalization, as well as the right to take all appropriate measures in connexion with the activities of transnational corporations which it considers detrimental to the achievement of economic and social progress;
5. Recommends that measures should be taken at all levels to ensure more active participation by the entire population in the preparation and execution of economic and social development policies and programmes designed to achieve social and economic progress, taking into account the experience of all countries in this field;
6. Requests the Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Programme to hold, within the programme of advisory services, interregional and regional seminars to study the national experience of developing and developed countries in carrying out far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress without prejudicing the operational programmes prepared for the developing countries;
7. Recommends that the regional commissions should consider this problem at their sessions;
8. Endorses the action taken by the Economic and Social Council requesting the Commission for Social Development to continue the study of national experience in carrying out far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress;[3]
9. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on national experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session and to give appropriate attention to this question in his reports on the world social situation;
10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirtieth session the item entitled "National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress".
2311th plenary meeting10 December 1974
[1] E/CN.5/478 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1 ard 2, Add.2 and Add.2/Corr. 1, Add.3 and Add.3/Corr.1, Add.4. [2] Resolution 2542 (XXIV). [3] Economic and Social Council resolution 1746 (LIV) of 16 May 1973.
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