By United Nations
This booklet commemorating the 40th anniversary of the institution of UNCTAD exhibits how UNCTAD´s paintings has developed and identifies a number of the significant highbrow contributions that the association has made when it comes to either analytical perspectives and coverage proposals. In a thought-provoking preface to the ebook, Mr. Rubens Ricupero, offers his own reflections on his 9 years at UNCTAD as Secretary-General.
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While the substantive elements of each paper are basically personal reflections, they are supported by the official documents listed in the “references” section at the end of each paper. These documents represent some of important research or policy contributions accomplished by the organization. Many of these key documents (together with some additional ones) are also reproduced on a CD-ROM attached to the inside back-cover of the book. By reproducing these key official documents on the CD-ROM, we intend to give readers who are interested in UNCTAD easy access to its most important texts, texts that are currently spread about in a very fragmented way throughout countless publications, many of which are extremely hard to find.
This initiative subsequently received support from developing countries, particularly in the Cairo Declaration adopted at the Conference on Problems of Economic Development (918 July 1962), which in turn led to a recommendation by ECOSOC in 1962 that a UN Conference on Trade and Development be convened. During this period, although GATT was based on a shaky foundation as only a provisional agreement without an institutional basis and comprising very limited membership (in 1955, there were only 34 GATT contracting parties: 14 among them were developing countries), it was nevertheless designed to provide an overall institutional framework for international trade.
These Principles, which would have a substantial impact on the approaches to trade and development issues in subsequent years, were adopted by roll call votes. Some of the developed countries cast negative votes and others abstained, while developing countries as a rule voted in favour as a bloc. UNCTAD I also marked the formation of the Group of 77 (G77). At UNCTAD I1 (New Delhi, 1968), the Conference adopted resolution 21 (11) calling for tariff preferences in favour of developing countries in line with the One of the areas, in which UNCTAD endeavoured to provide substantive intellectual contributions, was trade relations between countries with different social and economic systems.