Assistance to Comoros.

  • Author: UN General Assembly (31st sess. : 1976)
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  • Date:
    1 December 1976

31. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE*
42. Assistance to the Comoros,

The General Assembly, Recalling recommendation 99 (IV) of 31 May 1976, adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its fourth session, held at Nairobi from 5 to 31 May 1976, in which the Conference noted the serious and disturbing nature of the economic situation in the Comoros, where the per capita income is one of the lowest in the world,[1] Being aware, moreover, that the Comoros is faced with certain specific tasks arising from its recent attainment of independence, Recalling further its resolution 3421 (XXX) of 8 December 1975 on the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in which it urged the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system to extend assistance to the newly independent and emerging States,

1. Urgently appeals to Member States and to the specialized agencies and other organizations within the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to assist the Government of the Comoros in an effective and continuous manner so as to enable it to face successfully the critical situation resulting from the economic difficulties experienced by that country;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to mobilize financial, technical and economic assistance from the international community, particularly from the developed countries and the appropriate organizations within the United Nations system, with a view to meeting the short-term and long-term development needs of this newly independent country;

3. Requests the Committee for Development Planning to give favourable consideration at its thirteenth session, as a matter of priority, to the question of the inclusion of the Comoros in the list of least developed countries and to submit its conclusions to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-third session;

4. Invites in the meantime Member States, particularly the developed countries, and the organizations of the United Nations system to grant to the Comoros, in view of that country's difficult economic situation, the same benefits as those enjoyed by the least developed among the developing countries;

5. Further requests the Secretary-General to keep the matter under review and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution.

84th plenary meeting
1 December 1976


[1] Ibid.
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