International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of Technology : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
- Author: UN General Assembly (41st sess. : 1986-1987)
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Date:
5 December 1986
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 40/184 of 17 December 1985, in which it invited the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the President of the United Nations Conference on an International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of Technology to consult, as appropriate, with regional groups and Governments, taking into account the need for balanced geographical representation, with a view to identifying appropriate solutions to the issues outstanding in the code of conduct,
1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the consultations held in 1986 relating to the negotiations on an international code of conduct on the transfer of technology;
2. Notes that the consultations have not been completed and that further work is required to search for possible solutions to the outstanding issues in order to complete successfully the negotiations on a code of conduct;
3. Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the President of the United Nations Conference on an International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of Technology to continue and to finalize in 1987, on the basis of a more structured consultative mechanism, their consultations with regional groups and interested Governments with a view to identifying appropriate solutions to the issues outstanding in the code of conduct;
4. Further invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session on the progress made in the consultations referred to in paragraph 3 above;
5. Decides to take, at that session, in the light of the consultations, further action on the negotiations on the code of conduct, including the possible reconvening of the United Nations Conference on an International Code of Conduct on the Transfer of Technology, preferably in 1988.
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