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ORZG’[NAL: -;L ~:~H
President: Mr. ABDUI~H (Trinidad and Toba9o)
CONT~TS
o~:. Other funds and p~-ogrammes
(a) United ~’ , ~" ’ ’ "N.., ......... s Fund for Population A~.zvltles
Programnne pla~ni~ag c,:}~d preparation Foe t .e thicd progra~a~ing cycle 1982--1986(con tinued.)
Country and inte~:ccu!~try progra~::,es ::n~ ~ <~].~cts (c0nti~uctd)
Other matters
(c) Further consideration of the o~:gan~zat~on of the sessions of the Council
(con tinued)
This record ~s subject to correction.
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CffHER FUNDb i~i’<.~ I~ROGRA~’IES
(a) ’’’ F’ :,ONS FUND FOR ~PLA’fION AO±’IVITIES (DP/527 DP/528, DP/529, D]~/530;
DP/FPA/!2 ~d Add 1-17)
1. Mr. }iAL,~ (Executive Director, United Nations Fund for Population Activities)
said that the cu<’rent session of the Governing Council was particularly impo[°tant,
3ince the dec:[ [~’......... ns taken would affect the resources and future operations of
UFFFPA. He drew attention to U~dFPA’s annual report (DP/527) in its revised fo~:mgt,
~{nd s:~id it ,7,:s g~:atifying that, largely as a result of the United Nations PledgingConference for Development Activities for 1980, there had been 23 first-time donors
to UNFPA in 1980, bringing the total number for the year to a record 97. The final
figure for pledges and contributions for 1980 had been $125.4 million, an increase
of 12 per cent over 1979, but that increase had barely covered inflationary costs
and had lagged considerably behind U]~FPA’s total ~pp}:o~al authority for 1980 of
$138 million. That, combined with the fact that the una]_!ocated resources had beenexhausted by the end of 1980, had left very little leeway for meeting new and
worth-while requests for assistance.
2. In 1980, Project allocations had totalled ~150o5 million. Final total
expenditure had been ~147.5 ,i]llion, and admir:istr; ;:ivu ~xp<Jnditure had amo’,,Jnt<:d to
$11.6 million, or 8.8 per c~2nt of total income. The :m~e::~ ntation rate h~:td }~eenmore than 90 per cent, the highest attained so far, and 393 new projects, amolmting
to $39.1 million, had been approved. Family planning D~:ogrammes, at 41.7 per cent,
had again absorbed the largest proportion of allocatiohs. Other functionalallocations had been basic data collection, 19.2 per c<~nt; con~mnication and
education, 11.6 per cent; population dynamics, 11.4 pt~ co~’~t; multisector
activities, 8.5 ~er cent; formulation and evaluation of ~opulat~.on policies,
5 per cent; special progrmmmes for wc~nen, youth and other groups, 1.6 per cent; and
implementation of policies, 1 per cent. Needs assessment missions had beensponsored to 18 countries, making a total of 59 by the end of the year.
Four hundred and thirty-three projects involving 21.2 p::~:-r cent of total allocations
had been di~cectly executed by recipient countries, !!2 more than in 1979.
Interoount~y p~5ogrammes had received 31.8 per cent of all project allocations, as
against 30 per cent in 1979.
3. Owing to ihcreasing resources constraints, ongoing large programmes and
projects in a ~;mber of non-priority countries, and ~lays in starting many
recently-approved country programmes, allocations to the priority countries, at$43.3 millioD, had represented only 42.2 per cent of total country programme
allocations, compared to 55.6 per cent in 1979, and when the 14 borderline
countries were included ~,at figure became 53.7 per cent, as against 65 per cent in
1979. He was confident, however, that those trends would be successfully reversed
in the c~rrent year and brought into line with past policy directives.
4. UNFPA ~;as &rranging with its executing agencies to begin in 1982 reimbursing
agency support costs, at the rate of 13 per cent of annual project expenditures set
, .-i ! { ,: h
(!,t~. galas)
by the Governing Council in 1980, as well as phasing <:. i.e i~.~f~astructure project
v.~.:.~ts previously f~n~ded, in the ].east d{sruptive way - - ’" :r>.
5. One s~gnifJ.c~!n~t administrative dev.~loo~rPnt in l<.:. ~:~~.. ’:~od ~J~;,en UNFPA’s a~d~,.losion’ ~,’ ~"
in November to ~r,~be<ship of the A~minlstra+ive Co;~~m~ ’ ’,- -.-:~ Co-ordlnation
6. With refero~:~ce ho the progremm~ in 1981 6~Id fmp!i .. :..<: :s for the future,
,:~.r.~t 12 ye,~rs, in p:comotfng ....... :.;~./’zz of DOpt~l~-,tion[31~FPA’s success, in :i.{-s ......p~:ob]ems and of population ~7,rog~:am~es as vital co~:~o;,<~{:s of economic and socialdew~Iopment had elsoou~:aged t~uni:ries to request ass.,.~ ..... ~ .... :.o such an extent that
~-he demand had fai: outst~:ipoed the ~esot~rces avail~hle. ~~I e%. short-fall in 1980 of" pp~:o~imately $12 million below the approval autho:city ~ss expected to increase in
1981 top almost $20 ,~illion, about half resulting diroctly from the wide currency
:fluctuations of ~:e,"~e;<,t months. In the current unfavourable state of the worldcco~my as far as foreign assistance progranimes were concerned, those short-falls
had created additional programi:~}ii~g problems and resource projections, by reason ofdelays involved in ’the pledgi~)g and payment processes, together with exchange rate
fluctuations, were ~ ~:~ny case always difficult. In order to respond to that
situation, the Fu~d had ce/~:~fu].ly fo].lowed the directive given to it by the
Governing Cou~,cll at its t’~enty-.seventh session, by introducing much more rigorous
programm.e [’evie~./s, carefully exa!ilf.ning all existing project allocations and, where
possible, rephasing allocations to future years, scrutinizing cost estimates
carefully for waste, and, most importantly, postponing certain planned activitiesto future years. Rec:[pient Governments had been most ~r~derstanding and
cc-oi~erative, and the rephasing process had affo~o,_d so~e p~:ogramming~~anoeuvrability, but it could not continue fox" long without having an adverse
effect on country progr~mmes and projects.
7. The 17 projects and programmes currently before the Council for its approval
(DP/FPA/12/Add. I-17) represented only about one third of all the fund-worthy
F, ro3ects over el ’~’~ ~’--¯¯ ..... ~.~.,..to~ c~:igin~]ly submitted ’]?hey i!:~cl~/ded requests for
a~< ~st~nce for ~ev~t~ <,~[<’~:ity c~mtries, th~-ee ’ - ~* ’..... . oord~rlxne countries and five othercountries, in four of ~<’hich assistance programmes had been initiated before the
’~°.~inning~._~ of the priority system. Also submitted ~¢ere propcsals for the
continuation of~,..~’h~"<~ .... [I.Y of th~ W~,rld Fertility Survey and, as earlier agreed to~.:~,~ the c<,ur, ci! f’o~ -~..:l<~t~d major 1;~{.erccuntry prog~:am,~es, to be e×=c~.~ - {’.cd "°
by such<i s ~,s the U<~:{</<~ ~-,.~ :C<,~~s Population Division, L~:[O a:~d iLO. All the
"’ ~ ..... icn ~_nco}~c~ ........ .~ =.=:.;v~.’~m "~:t~oh]ect to availability of funds", and since theFt~nd’s resources were actually declining in real terms, it would be possible
....-",s.,lzo "~zcally to irc, p]e~:p~F~t only a part of the submissions for the period
]1~82-].985. A1].ocatf~n{; for ~%~w programmes would be ~:~sde in accordance with the
...... ~,,~’~.~., .~ of _ ~c!_’ ...... ~_ and ~,ith any Governing C<>~ncil decisions on the role-:i L.~<FPA in the Itg¢~. /..ight not be possible to fi~’~ance major new programmes in
~:~<>ntries requestin 9, ~.}.<~[~ tahce for. the first time, an,~ there might be only partialfunding available for the continuation of major programmes in several priority
countires which were due to reach completion in the period 1982-1985.
8. He drew attentior~ L© Pocumezt DP/529, cont~iniF~g the [7o~k Plan and the Request
for /~ppi:e~al AuthQrity, ~:~d o~erved that at the t,~0enty.-seventh session.of theCou~cil, U~qFPA had presented a Work Plan based on total income over the period
1981-1984 of $791 ~dllion, requiring an ~<’.,Jme of $159 m~!lion in 1981. ~i~’h~:{t
estimate had twice had to be ~;evJsed £o~.~n~’~:~ds, so that the do~ument befo~e the
Council sho~ed income of only ~13! ~:~il] io~j for 1981 and total ~e~<ources of
$735 million for th~ ~eriod ]982-!985.
9. The ~ork plan for 1982-].985 wa~{ b~se<~ on a 12 per cent inc~:’ease in new
resou~.~ces from ]981 to 1982, fo].lo~d bf ~n ~ner~,~<se of 53 per cent from 1982 to
1985, at the ~:ate of ]5 per cent ~:~ y<~;~<; a ~ore ~:ealistic estimate, however,
~.~ould be 12 per cent per year, while .l.[!}ing ]~:~ss ~J.~an th,<~t w.;~uld mean a £ecline,
in real tea:ms, in programming. In ~b~,o~ <:e ~-erms, of course, the sums invol~%d
were small: ~.16 million for 1982, }[’23 ~;,it].io~"~ for 1983 and $25 million for ].984.
i0. Even assum~.~g that the increase t.’~:~]~:~ts fo~: the period i.n question were met,
parts of many of the multiyear count~.y prog~:<mmes al)~eady approved, or due to be
approved at the c~r~:::Jnt Co~ncil session, ~.~o~]]d have to be rephased over one or two
additional years. [n order to enable Uh!.~’PA to be fair in its treat~.’ient of all
recipient co<~ntries, with regard, inter alia, to t]qe launching of new p}_-ogrammes
and initiatives of a special nature ~;here possible, the Council at ~ts current
session should ~:~g~:’ee to allow it the flexibility to make p~ogru~me <]j~tments in
the course of its ~ork.
"~" ]i. In view of i{{~ current estimate of resources for 1982 at ~147 mi~l~on, ~i~FPA
was requesting the same approval authority for that year as had b~en giv<{n ~or
1981, as well as an additional approval authority of $36.75 m~lllon for 1983,
b~.’in.~ing the total thus far ~’equested for i~83 to ~II0.25 m’~il!c>n~ ~s against an
estimate of $170 million in resources.
12. Taking into account the recommendation made by the Ccuncil at its
twenty-seventh session, he suggested that a target of 25 per c~nt of annual pledges
should be established for the UNDP operational reserve, to he met by the Fund by
the end of the ~:>:t fc;u~--year work p!a~. i~o :-~nsure that the <~,~i~:ed level ~:~:s~’eached duri~.~g 9h<~’< [~<~:r:[.c<], the Fund ~:~ou]d }~£v~ to set as [de a y<=~c]_y amount out of
its annual in(-o~.,e f<cm contributions. He accordingly appaaled to all donor
Governments ~o increase their annual pledges so that the increase in the
operational reset-re could be made witho~]t detriment to the Fund’s p}fogramme.
13. %~he };~e~,t~’:t ~:~ ~-~ ~ fut~re role of th<~: :Cund (!]~P/520), pre~arc£ ~% the Council’s
request, focu:~:~d oh t]-~e directions ~nd p~o3~;am:<’~e strategies []~BA might ~.£opt for
the 1980s, and was the result of an inte[~nal assessment of the po!~.:’ies and
operations of the F~.:nd, together with informal consultations with <}xecutlngorganizations and Council members on their perceptions of future ~>e~;ds in the
population field.
!4. The challenges of future population p~-oblems were serious <~d ’h~de-o~-anging.
};lexible interpretation of its mandate should permit the Eund to ~esp~ond to"~anging needs, but, given the growing de~[.and for assistance, and limited
~esources, it was necessary to concentrate on a few goals, as outlined in
:~ragraphs 4-27 of the re’~)ort.
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15. To e~abl~ ~:~;/ A to concentrate re,sources on count~/ics with the most u~’ge~,t
population p~eb]~ s, it was proposed that the priority country system approved bythe Council i~ ~ry 1977 should be updated to take i~to account recent ch~!~<~s in
demographic an~ ~ico~omic conditions in the developing c~’n~t~ies. Of the five
alternatives o~hl-i~ed in the a~ex to the ~eport, alte~nailve four, involving a
group of 46 p~Jo~ity countries, ~as ~’e<~o~,~,~n~]~-~d, on ~he 0J~erstanding that u]i;L~j~!~g
~ould not fast, it in any sudden withd~’a~,~al of ~pport~ and that com~itments ~<>~!d be
fulfilled. The p~:iority system ~{hould be ~evised or ~<L:~ted every five years, but
without undue disruption to the programme.
16. The Council’s gui<]ance was ~:~quested in clarifying certain aspects of ~:he
Fund’s core progr~<~m~e of support ~hich, although within its mandate, had not thus
far been very prominent. Those aspects involved activities relating to populationredistribution and migration, the advancement of women in population and
development, and changing age structures, in so far as such activities fell withinthe general framework of national population plans and policies.
17. The shifts in emphasis among and within major programme areas proposed would
enable UNFPA to channel its resources towards filling the most urgent gaps,
pa~.’ticularly in areas where other sources of assistance %~ere less active. Its
general intention was to pr~note a more broad-based, multise~toral approach in ~:hich
needs assessment exercises would continue to be a very effective p~’og~°~mming tool.
].8. In order to develop the self.reliance, of countriesr [~.A~ ,~’ ~> [nte~ded to p]ace a
time-limit on its support for certain project components, beyond which the ~;ec’p! :ntGovernment or organization would take over and continue the activities conce~:~:d.
19. Support at the intercountry level would in future b~% ~>!~ ~ed to focus on <~ly
the best major programmes, those which ~,ould continue ~o~t ~:~i~fectively to ~e.~/ ~ iopopulation problems at the country level and, to e~sure ~J~ t ~h p~°ogrammes ~:~e
flexible enough to respond to those problems, it was reccmm~>n~ed that a range of
between approximately 25 and 30 per cent of total programme resources should be
established as the future level of intercountry support. The Council’s views on the
document were eec$~ni:~a}_-y to guide the Fund’s future prog~7~mne.
20. At its iqg] se~=~sion the Population Commission had recommended to the Economic
and Social Cou~cil that a World Population Conference should be held in 1984, with
the main purpose of reviewing the implementation to date of the World Population
Plan of Action ~r,d of determining the action required to [~{:ke the integration of
population an@ ~](~velopment more effective, t~fg~PA strongly ~ubi~o~;ted the holding ~f
the Conference; if the Economic and Social Council adQpted the ~:eco~u~]endation~ theFund would, as requested by the Population Co~lmission, assume a significant role in
organizing the Conference, and also, naturally, report to the Governing Council atits twenty-ninth session on the details of the financing of the Conference. It was
currently believed that if savings were ;~sde by using the staff of the UnitedNations Popu!~t~on Division and LrNFPA ~s a secretariat and disi~<~sing with a
Secretary-General, only $1.5 million would be sufficient. Those funds could be
aiTocated in the following ~anner: $~!’~0,000 in 1982, ~:[6f::;,<;¢0 in 1983 and $600,000
i~i !.984, and would p~obably be drawn C~:o,~i additional co~~t:~!butions rather than from
!:]~c regular U~FPA buc]get. The Coui~ci!’s views would be ’n,~]D[ul, and would enablethe Fund to respond to the question,s ,,’bich were sure to L:z ~i~:~ed at the July
~:sion of the Economic a}~<] Social C~i~I~cil.
2].0 ’~he fourth yearly state of world ,>{~pulation report -i~L>,~-,<ed as the firs~
chapter of the printed version of the iq]e Fund’s report, i[{s ~Lajor thrust was a
discussion of ~.,or]d ~Dpu!ation g~=o<~th and its implicat:;o~=s for the future. For
example, using United Nations medium va~tiant projections~ a:{}d ~x~suming that it was
po:<,sible to sustain {:he remit)of cur~:,,nt population prog}fa,~os , stabilizationappeared feasible at ]0.5 billion in the year 2110. Of that 10.5 billion,
9.1 billion would be living in develoL>ing countries, with the poorest regions -
Africa and South Asia .- accounting for more than 60 per cent. As long as imbalances
created by poverty, m~Inutrition or ill health persisted, the social tensions
arising out of population pressures would permeate every aspect of life on earth.
Co~s!~quently, a renewed in.tern~tio~al effort to stabilize ,~orld [yopu!ation as earlyas possible and at the lowest ~ossible level was imperative. That had been the
~... baltic message of the Inte}:~’:~{{tional Confe~:ence on Family Planni~g in the 1980s, held
in Jakarta, Indonesia, in Aoril i981, which had stressed the need to {~’~crea~ee>;[}en<]iture in developing countries frc~ the current a~n’~al {~stim~te of $i billion
to approximately ~3 b:iT]~<~]. Th~re were a number of me~:~s<~’es "~bich coutd c~t~::[b~te
to the demographic tral~sit~;a from high to low birth ratus; it: ~:as pos~:[b].e tohasten that transition in the less developed countries, but it would require
--- continued efforts to i~-~ceg~:ate population and development p]anni~g.
22. Population was one of the most urgent of the global issues to be faced in the
next hundred years° It ~;as also the one area in which succe::-’s, beyond ~Ii
~-~%ectatioi~s, had been ,~.’}i,:~v,{d Jn a ~latively short time, <~wi~g largely Lo the
",’~k of the United ~:~atio=~ ..y~tcm. ~fhe international (~:<;_;~,~o.~’~:[ty could not ;-;.i~f:°~.d toaban<]on the advances ms<]e by the developing countries tow<-~rds stabilizing the world
population; or~ the contrary, continued perception of the problem and commitment to
solving it by all cou~.t~’~s ~:as essential.
i:-~-.O’; :~X<E OF ]MP[7:}~Ti ~ : ~. : ,[-~cnf~~u,~d) (OP/510 and Add 1 !..<F/511 and Corr.! DP/512
::ud ~,~d.,J ,1, DP/51~, fit- ........ <.<’~.~ _~’,*/g15_, _ and Add.l, DP/S16, D£.’/525, DP/558 and Corr.!)
VROGRAI~t~t4E PLANNING 7~<~D _~:~i<~SP~-;%ATION FOR THE THIRD PROGR_A}.24ING CYCLE, 1982-1986
(<-,_:--t:inued) ...................(DP/517~ _._~’~, _,:,~ :z::d Corr,l and Add.l, DP/5!9, DP/520, DP/521, DP/564,,. - ~_ 5)
C<:,<~{%,7<Y ~.,_,..D INT3:’;ROOU..~’.;’~C,; V,.<<?<3~i%,MES .~WD PROJECTS(cont [.j [[].~)3.hb.:~<x (DP/522)
O:]THER [~tAZ~’ERS (continued)
(c) }~0~-,.~sR CO,,~IDE~,A].o. t]~ Tile ORGAN]IZATION OF q~:~ S<;<~]fO~S OF THE COUNCIL
(continued) (DP/562 and Corr.l)
23. Mr. POPOV (Bulgaria) said that in the current complicated international
situation, Bulgaria was cc,m-iLtcd to strengthening world p~:ace and pr~noting
i - -
ir~teznatiena! co, oi"~c~t~en. His c~,~l~’~Z~’ion "~s ~~ressed by the considerable
:[i~p~fove~’~ent in U~DP pla~ning a~’~d p~:oj~ct ~:~:~,:_;,~Iti~’~n and welco~ed the successes ~:~eProgra[~me had achieved c~_u[’ing the p~t l~.:~ar, a ~.~e~-iod in which its technical
coo~o[~r~tion activities had involved ].50 ceu~%tries. The resources .~’V~nt on
p~:’ogramme and project i~mplementation in _>,~0 had amounted to ,<~676.2 million, a
23 per cent ~r~c~ease ouer 1979. The Jr~ ~e~::~es in e~:i~e~t s~v.[c~s ~nd in c%ui~._~i~t
~]eflected the scoh-~e of DI~39P activiti,~s ~n furthe~f~ce of the obj~ctlves of
de ve lov~,en t.
24. His Goverr~{~ent fully supported ~:he assistance given under the Frogi’amn~e to th~
national liberation ~ovements and the ~:0~,~ ...... t~,nlan [~eople. It believed that the
assistance p~og[’~0.~’~e ~’~hould be e~[?~c_~,] ~.d ]:~ade even ~o~.~e effectS.re.
25. Some progress bad been made in using for technical assista~%ce purposes sll the
resources of the Pz~cgr~m~me, including contributions in non-convertible currencies.
The Administrato~ c~e:~erved c~,~mendation in that regard. Although encouraging, the
£esults to <7~te were not fully satisfactory. They sho~ed, ho~:ever, that all such
~.~esources co[~id be u~<~d if the ad~,lini~t~ation ~e~uinely ~ished to u~e thegn. The
joint measures t~5,ken by his Govern~~’~ent and D~DP had yielded ~ositive results in the
use of available r~eso~’~rces. In that connexion, the UNDP Geneva office had showngreat initiative.
26. On the eve of the third progra~?~aing cycle, the question of e~h,:~n<’~ing the
effectiveness of L)~i~>P’s activities a~<:,%’~med particular i~po~:t~ce, ~,;,~,~-cially ~~s khe
e~phasis was cu~’~tly on technical co.~oper~tion in i~lementing~ the !r~!~:.~,~at[o~a’l
Development St£-ategy. UNDP must be prepa~:ed to :~ssume the key ~.~o]e theft it ~o<~Id
continue to have in international co-o[~eration.
27. ~ile [Y.~{DP’s ~e:,~fo~:mance over the past year had been cc:~’,~i~-~ne~?b~e, the~:e ,,~e~:e
still ~ol~:e p~obTe:.~s to be solved. The >’~:og::e:~’~::~2 ,~as ba’~:’~ on t!’:~ ~ ~’,:::~:~:’ij~.e ofuniversal and %:c,i~_~:%%a~y ¢o~ooperation, ~.hich ::~e~.:~t that in ex’c~:’d:!,:.~- 5 t.,~::h~’~<~l
assistance, Uq’aDP should draw on experience and expertise f~om all ~ou~:ces ~nd fromcountries with different socio-econo~ic systems. It was regcett~7~b~e that the
practice of entrusting p~:oject execution activities to a few ~:e~r~:et.:economy
cou~tr~es ~.,~s cc-2~tJ~!~ti~g. " The situation had ~ot ir~p~oved in i!#~O, As tables 3, 4,
32 per cent of ~he ~2~Z:~ts; over 55 ~e~: ccitt of the eq~i[3~ent f_c.~- U~I~P p~’o~ect had
been purchased from five countries; 37 per cent of the subcontrects bed been awarded~o contractors in t%:o countries} 35 per cent of the fello,,~:ships had been taken up in
three countries. ~ot enough was being done to allow the developing countries to
benefit by the c©~.~e~’,ab!e experieDce of the ~ocialist countrJ~ ~~ ~.~-e technical
assistance area. [~DP a~d the executi~g age~’~cles must take mo~e ~,.--,~etic ~_nd
practical measures to ensure a more eq~it~:.ble involvement of co.u.~t.~.~es in technical
co-operation activities.
28. The question of the criteria for the al!oc~tion of UNDP [°e~o~$c<,s had been
settled at the twenty~-s~venth ~e~;sic~% of L~e <~,~v~~:!.ng Co~%cil. ~,~ {~[c~ted ~n
.oo
~:ng ] i shPage 8
paragraph ] ~ " -:is~.on 80/30, 80 per cent of khe ’;:<~[:al 6~:,ou~t availabi:~ for
country I[>Fs ~-~ :7~i be allocated to countries with ~er ~ ~<~-~ts (:~,~P of up to ~;;~::~n
Document D~-)/~,:c~ ........ ’~.,,_ the estimated available UNDP :’esou~:ces ~,or: the thirdprog~’&~:ming <~,, ........... d dealt with resource allocation, h~is delegation shared the
Ac~ministrato[’:~ ::~’~:~cern over the deficit and the negative ~.~ ~>:ct it would have on
UNOP autiv).u. - "’ :~:~:>o* :rogr~u~ing’ during the fi~:st year of the ::h{~d .... cycle should Ue onthe basis of :~0 ;::r cent of the iP]:~s ~ndicated in 4ec!,~<i<,~ )/30, ~:ubject %:o
........... ,~uent a(:3,~:~tv~(~:nts. That :;ou].d allow the country E,:co:~( ~,,~,~es to get ofi% the
ground. Nbr;~ally execution during the first year of ~h_e ~ycle was cons]der:b].y
behind sche<]u le.
29. Another ~>ortant aspect of the p~eparatlons for the third progra~ing cycle
concerned the policies and procedures for the countly and regional programn~es and
projects. His delegation supported the amend~:ents p~:oposed by the Administrator
with a view to simplifying and improving the programming Procedures. Such a processmust, as far as possible, be consistent with the needs of the v~rious count~ies.
The provisions of the Consensus of 1970 and General Assembly resolution 3405 (XXX)
,~should be the main guidel~nes for UNDP activities. The C~rnments of the ~ ~[~i,?>us
countries sho~]Id have a decisive role in setting pr~oritie~ rot the u:~e of O .~Presources and ~hould be involved in programme manag~::;~ent a:,d {mplementat:on,
together with bq:DP and the executing agencies. His deleg~:!on fully ,~ep[~ovt,-4 ~he
simplification of country programme documents.
30. g~]garia ~as engaged in fruitful co-opek’ation ~<~<:h J~:L,P ;d with the c a
office. The n,~::tional program~?,e for the period 1977,~-!~S! :.r.~ ~’.-:’~ng succ~sf~.~y
~aplement~; the projects executed with Uk~DP assistance ~o:~,@ be useful to :.!~e
developing countries, which stood to benefit from the results obtained. So~ne of t’hecc~npleted projects involved co-operation with centres and institutes in "the
developing countries.
31. At the twenty~oseventh session of the Governing Cou~.:i], !~:.a-; delegation "~.d
expressed disagreement concerning the use of statistical d:,~ka on lqer~ G~Ppublished by the World Bank when IPFs were being determi~ed. As the Bank itselfrecognized, such ~ata were mere guidelines; they were r~ot c~.:,:~:;~:able with the de, ta
~,hich were ~)t~b]i ;’~ed for other ~e~,bers of the ~nI,: ~d c::,?<"::~’ :d according to
:’ac]ic~lly (3~ (f~:cnt ~=,ethodology. His delegation felt t:~t~{. --:~e ~:,Lovis~ons of
paragraph 5 of Council decision 80/30 :~.,hould be applied, ’~i~e Ad:;:inistrator should
determine and use the best estimates available, taking into account estimates
provided to %~e Statistical Office of the Secretariat as well as from other reliable
sou rces.
37. The q~es’L~<~’: was one of principle. U%~DP was a universal organization four~:ed
on the principle of equal treatment for all countries. His delegation hoped thatthe UNDP administration would reconsider its position and take an equitable decision
in conformity with its mandate.
¢’}~’~R ,~ ;~ the very d~ ~’f~c~,] t":’¢ ~,,[r ..... J~.~ (T~N<ey) said that ~:{os{: countries were
t~/~£k of economic "- ~" ~ ....u~w%~=~Dg.~nt, a tx~sk :~:~de even more diff~;~ it by the structural
o~_ 0~,~ or!d ecc’.nc~:y r~d the many econ~;~’~’_’c ~~"~"
<k:ve!op~ng and develoRed countr~e~ ................ Little progr~ss ,bY ~ been made to ~];:,te inthe ~ny negotiations initiated with a view to finding ;~q~s of overcoming the
(;l~.~f~cu~tl-o. [?here h~d ..... [R~ggestions tha,~.. ......... --N~s of developL1entsL<::~Id be entirely red~.,.ine<], that ,.~ir.. t the poorest set_::.~,xs of the ~orld’s
}b:.~z ~].:-~.,t.{on should }",e <~iv~H% relief o’~d flat {her:e should L,~ o~L ]east an e~ergency
progr;:,:vi~e for s~viv~]. ]~o~,~ever, a ~’:rategy that co~,~%d ~, :<~ £o real progress
to%/a~ds the creation of a new and ,:~,p~c,;~ble world econ¢:~:!<~ :>r~er ~:as yet to,come.:
34. At no time had the econGnic interdependence among ~y:~tions been more evident and
at no time had there been greater need for the formulation of collective [xol}ciesand the reformulation of established rules of conduct. The time had co~e to p;:o.~ote
international co-operation activities ’throughout the world and establish more
effective mechanisms. Turkey believed that such" effective international
co-operation m~ould cont~ibute to the c~:eation of a mor~ appropriate and equitable
pattern of inter~atlon~l econc~nlc relations.
35. ~}~he A6~inis~-rator bad d:cs~n .......... "~....... ac~x~.nu on to a number of i~c,i:,:)rtant questions He
,, { ~ " ........ W:ce~ ~c.c,e by the deveJ.oping countries over the p~:~sthad stated :hat desplte H,-~e ad .......... "G~c.<~de, more people ~.~te~:e cu~:~e~%tly living in absolute poverty than at the beg{nningof the i970s. He h;~d also stated that by ].985 the increase in the annual inc<~:ne ofthe p~rest count~:ies w’as likely to be merely $50 per__i~piks - over their 1965
iDcome. UNDP fou.nd " ....i~.~:.e.lf ~p,;~ble to m~et the targets set for the third p}.:ogra~:~},ngcycle ....... ¯ ....... c ~’~ ;," "" ...... ’ "igh ,{nflation ~:.g.%dflu "~’,~._.~=ting~" exchange ~o....{~;~s. If the development process was to move ahead, ~:esou~;c.,:s
would have to be ~obi].:{zed on a ~redictable, continuous and assured bas.{s.
36. Much had been said about the need to keep pace with increasing demahds for
fcod, energy, water add other ;/esources, about the primary responsibility of thed~,veJ.©ping countries ~ ~r~.<.~.~~.~o~k~.ng out ~cceptable solutioi°~s to their deveL:~p~:K:nt
i~ , ........ nier nations to continu~ offering techn.~cal: ~.blc~:~s, about the duty C:.: the ...... "~’
as~! ~:stance and additional resources, and about the key role which UNDP should
to,<~.~ effort %,~at had not been said h~as how all that would beconti~’R~e to play in "~-~~...~,ed with the inaCe::~:.-~te f~.nahc~.al resources available. At the current session,....... G,.o,,x,::~rn~.ng ~. ~’~ be realistic and then, "~ all sincerity, try to
s" ’~ ~-::::,e of e~isti, m~ ~:::< ...... k:ti’.~qS, it ~’qust help U!.,’.’T/[ -~ :x~.i p~,rticipating com~tries~o f~nd.. L:ays of ~{;~-,~’ .... ......~’ ....~ is; Lhe c;h&r..ges of the times. -,~-~ :[.~t context, Turkey
~,.e~.~ed many of the iY~!tig~ti~.ves introduced by UNDP and individual Governments.
370 ~" ~,T;,ere were sever:__ ~:re;~s in %;hich constructive me%~R~,;~es could be taken by the
c-:’:::,-~ing Cour;cil. :r~ -°- f;:<st place, inasmuch as the ,~-’ey [:.=.sue before it <~I: t~e
¯ ~.,.~.:r~:,t session yes h,.-~ ,.~ £![~d resources commensurate with the expectations
e~’~bt’;d~ed in decision ~{6/%0, it would be a negative appro~{ch to begin by sug9e:~,tingthat the projections in the third cycle were over-estlmated. The Council had
decided on a "forward planning" allocation of resources for 1982-1986, which was
bas, ed on an assumed over-a.l! average annual growth of voluntary contributions of at]ea~t 14 per cent. The A,’~:{~’~ist~..ator had had consult~tic;~s ~;ith Governments ",~;ith a
v_ew to "~:.~<r~e ’,~ .......... ~" "e ~- ].:Ikelyto be avmi]~!~L]<~ fo~: the third cycle. ?u):k~y u.~,,:ierstood that ~hose consultations end
estim{~tes had been ’~,~=de by the Adminis’,’i:,~tor in a realistic way a~d was disappointed
that a nu,:;~ber of go<~e~nm<nts did not fully r,’,’~s~’e the Administrator’s views. On the
other band, his delegation was impress~<d that the over-all estimate of third cycle
re<,ureas of $5ol billion f~}cluded a ,:~.o,rb <o~<]. est:[~.ate of ~o~,~s:{b].e cont~ib~.~tionsfrom the Gulf A~’ab Development Fo~<~(~ati(tn £<~" Lhe U,~,ited V&<t!o~us, T<;~rkey belic,/ed
th~{t such action was fully consistc~t ~::ith {’.he .,p].rit of N<ec~sii~:n 80/30 and with the
mandate given by the {general Assumhly {<o U~DP to ~{-cengthen the self-rellance of
developing countries.
38. HiS delegatlo~ hoped that the flna;’~cial difficulties of the third cycle would
be overcome, [.hat there wc~J.d be no consi~s, rable reduction in the programme levels
envisaged for the cycle and that there would be no across-the-board adjust~ents in
the IP~s of all countries. Such adjustments would impair confidence in United
a ..... ~stance UNDP should continue to plan according to theNations develo/~,~,cn t ~" "figures indicated ~n ~ecision 80/30. As appropriate, a cautious approach should be
taken by the [XqOP ~<dministration. T~eo tk~irds of the UHDP administrative budget
related to field costs. One third of IINDP field office activities d~d not relate
directly to the P~:o<~ramme. Administrative economies co~]d be achiew:{d through the
integration of the op~rational activities of the specialized agencies with those of
UNDP. In that ~o~%exion, h~s delegation w(%Icomed the emerging trend of design~{tlng
UNDP ~’esident r{xpr,?,~ntatives as ~:esid>nt co-.-ordir~ators of the United Na~<]cns :<~-~tem.
39. His Governm<~t ~as concerned over the accumulation by I X~DP of e o;%-<:onvertible
currencies. It urged those countries whose currencies were accum<~lating to make a
serious effort, if they were conuaitted to alleviating the problems of developing
countries, to ensure tinat their currencies were capable of being uti3ized by UNDP.
40. His delegation ~;hared the Administr,:-,:o).’s ~iews regarding sr::=~c~al purpo~e fm,~sand did not favour the ~:stablishment of ~,y ~,:;ditional machinery to ,~:<tmis~er ~ ~y
new funds that m~ght be created. UNDP had <~one a creditable job, for example, in
administering the interim Fund for Science and Technology for Development, and it
should continue ~ts ve:nagement in that {!<rca. That l~ne of appro6ch ~Iso concurred
with the coneept el: U<)~ as the central fu~d~ng body for techn{r;a] ,to <~f:~:r.~:~tion in
tLe U~i’ced )’;ati::n-~s ,_y~te~,, ~ concept £n!,-; ro~ by the Gene)"ai ,;"%~-~ , ,,~_ [;oreover,the establish~cnt cf cs~rate machinery for s?}cial f~:~ds would :,Rrult in increasing
ad:{~{]nistrative costs. It would therefore be practical to have soec<~] funds use
t~qDP’s co,tureen administrative services under the control and authority of the
A,<im~nistrator. Savings to the system in c,:erhead costs would ~e!ease financialr~;:~-ot’rces for inc}?e<;:,~!S %]_]<_.t’.atious to J< "~?:l~:,,i~%g countries. F~!::t" ~}~_;re, UHDP
could provide effective ~o;~ito~ing ahd ~,:~ ~,:v[so~y functions. The ~i}, { ~sue ~,~as
the strengthening of those special fui~ds thorough ~dditional resources, ~ther than
whether or not new mechanisms should be established to administer them.
41, Turkey endorsed UNDP’s emphasis on 1~uman and institutional development in
~-~ec!pient countries. It had learnt from the past that second in.<,t{t~t{enz rod
!’t
adequate train.~}-~, es;sential to :-quitable econe:~ic ~:~d pc] itlcal develop’~:cmt.
c:a~acity for fc,-~: 3 .... >,.~istance. U~:::DP ~:~hculd encov}vg-,~e ,:g~c~L,i~-~t countries which
b~d the ~otenti~-- to i,~:ovJ.de e~l}e~:’ts ~.n differ:eat a~:e~%s to ~,:~’~:~.})lish national
recruit~/:ent co:: :~!"~t~.:::."s. Y.n that co~text, the e::,~ecut!.n@ {::~]c:~:.c!es of LR,]DP ~-~ho~!!<!
review; their [c.~t<:.: i7, ~:nd make job descriptions available to ~.!l national rec:l:u~[~>.-:nt
co:~-;mittees, a~ ~.: ~.. ted by the reprcse~~tative of g~gc::qti~:a.
42. Adequate t~:,ci,.’,i~ag skills and em~].oy~ent oppo:ct~itle~; :~t be p~ovJc~e,,] {ion? Lhe
e~t..~,ae.~.d 45 ~i~i]] ion new workers ~,~no would be <u’itening the l~.bour force in p’,:)~
countries every ~’ear for the next 10 yee~rs. %’he increase in the number of yot~,g
people in the d~ve]oping countries c[eai:ed urgent ~ev# demands for educational
facilities, t~?a:[~>.ed teachers, institutional equipiaent ai~d material. Such dema:~<]s
%~ou].d p~t a st~:;.~in on <~ve].opment resources throughout the developing x..~orld.
Efforts should be ~>.de to ensure that national policy-makers and the mass media
better understood %:he implications of argu~t~ents on international econ(a’aic and
technical co.,-operation. UNDP had a special responsibility to promote a better
v~nde~:standing of <~:~ve].oioment problems and the generation of new ideas arid possibleuc~lutions. ~[i~ ~7<,~egation therefore s~pL~orted the p~:opo~al by the repre~c.n’<:g~t.fve of
,~,~e ga~e~bia con(::<-~:~i!~g the establishment, on an ezp~.~k’i~t’~ental 6;d sl~tall--~:cale h’~,:,’~s,
and under the Ui~DP u>’~.brella, of a study prog~a~nme for c~eve c.)p.~:~:nt is~;ues. ’2he
results of s~cn a progra;-ame might assist the Governing Couz,c%l in its conside~’ation
of policy issues ~.elated to the operational activities c#~:~:~.ed out by funds z~:¢:d’" AC~IO 1, n 1 ~.~ F [-,::~ { :3 L’ ~Sprogram~~es u, nder its..e~")erv]m~on.,t ....... ¯ His <~e].egatfon a]..~o >;: .~-v~.<d the " " ","
pro~m~al.s ~:egaz’ding the strea~alJ.,.~Ing e~nd r~t.~.onalxz~v.ca~:. 7f ":~,~ ,.-eo~:k of theGoverning Council, as contained in docu~,ent DP/562.
4~. Turkey welcomed the Administrator’s proposed rates of i[,crease for popu!at’;on
prograx~mes. It fully supported UNFPA’s request for approval of the cont]_nuatior~ of
the World Fertility Survey program,~e. The Turkish fert].lity yu~[vey had been
undertaken in col.laboration with the 0~.~A p~ogramrae, ~h~.ch b~,d the p~’ticu!a~:
concentration of kno~ledge and expel, rise for the nece~,~,~{~<y ..: ~~:inu~_ng t~chnie~l
ass is t ance.
44. His delegation endorsed the steps taken by UNDP to ~teg;:’ate evaluation into
the project ~-yc!e0 v,’~!uation would ~>~ke it p::~’~:~Ib~e to 1. ~.~’~"~ ~°c,z~ past experie~.~ce
d~d to c~a~~~ <u~:~: to projects with the g~_~e~te~.~t ~ot< ’-,!. <t ~,’as essential to
think seriou::~!y ~.bc~t ,~ays of ~<:.ki~g the b<.:st use of u?:~)2’~7. ~.;<~>-f{~.nncial re~o<~;.c<-’~as well-. U,~DP had an extensive field staff %~ith figst-h~d l;p,o’~¢ledge of each
country, its in~titutions, traditions and econc~..tlc sltustion. It was well qualif{ed
to carry out p~-e~n<~estment work, preparing the way for financial decisions by other
organizatlc:~o X"[~.. ~:~>l~-gation ;~greed ~hat the Administ~:atel ° ~:~v:>u!d encourage ~:he~*esident ~:e~:~<-:~--~ ,:~t[w.~s to put even >o.~:e e}~.p[~asis on pr~inv:~::~t.~:ent activities.
45. Turkey strc~gly supported the concept of technical c~3~operation among
developing countries. It supported the decision to integrate that theme into
regular meetings of the Governing Council, Under the ’J, OT%~£q!~i~ cc’,~:::>,e, in.~tlat~:~ .~m
Turkey four ye~s ,:~r!ier, nationals l~.,ei~ abroad ~e~e b~c,~:<ght b::c;: to i:hc~r
country of origin for short consultanc{es u;~der the U~DP u~b}:e!la. ~’hat e~p- ~e:~ce
’ ~!<- ~, Tu r___~ex)
~:~s ;c.~t:~].ysed sim_~].~.~- p~:ogrammes in a ,,<)zen other develo! ~,, :,:.~:~tries. Such
i:;:zo-:ative measure’:; wci.~e increasir:,gly needed to make effec, a~i.:~ ’t ,.~n..,fers of
~. O[JDP was in a unique::. ~ position to co-ordinate the elf.-".[: {~f other donor
~<g::~c::.’.~as operating in ::~srticular cc,~n’.~-Jcs ~nd p~ayed an ........ .~nt { ~d ccu~,],:’<,:?:~[".~:y
."e].e in ~:elation to otbe~’.’ p):ogram,i-<%~. In ~:~ome ca~,-~s, t~, ~.~ ~, n{~b)P could be
ei~<:;<.~u~taged to exf~lore co-financin~ <~:;~:~:~,.~ =~ents with oh[ ....... =.>~ ,~ge~cies..}
47. As the Ad~ninistrator h~d stated, [.he Governing Coo,. il ]{~d always been unique
in [acing squarely every critical, <;c~.~:f].icated and sometim<-s divisive subject
p~:ese~ted to it. In the spirit of mutual i:e~,}:pect and goo{~v<d,]l, it had always
re,,~olved the issues by consensus. ’f0.[key supported the A,.L~’~{ ~.gtrator’s appeal to
t~’aditional dono£’s, Gove~.nments which had hitherto made c~;].y modest contributions %:0
the P~:o{~]~:amme and developing countries themselves to resolve to increase their
centrt[butions so t/~at the urgent needs of the developing countries could be met.
48. .................~.,[. (~}RR.:,A/__.~__’~] .......DA .h.:!?<h’9_~° .....~ (B~azil) said [~uat decision i~0,/~]0 ~<~]icat,!d t;.at there h.~d
been a ,~;hift of <~mph,::~,:~:fs in favour of the !east-devel~p~d ~:~/,~.°~t~;ies vhich was~:c r thewho!eheartedly suppedted by the internatio~al ....... "~’ ’ "
channelling of 80 per cent of available resou~’ces to co,.!atr{es with low >or capita"" " }i ........... f .........
G~Ps add had been based on ce.{:_aln expectations regardi~g n ~d~_qt .... = [~c~:case in
~.~coe r.e:3ources. ~", r~.y d~""~,]-i.~ing,.~ ..... countries had had {:o ,..~ :<,<:.n th,i {.r ].c~.~’~i:,,~a::e
.... .~ ....... ly ~..~.,h "’°e ,-’~f . Cj -, ~.of the least deve~.)ped c<:<<~{~:’t<s. Latin America had bc. ,~ :,~.~:~ e~:~.~,,..~!y ~g~’e~ ted,
but had gone along with the c~o~~e~’~u/s, despite the impo~.}{~u’~ce it attached to ...... )P
country programmes. Its st~pport for the. agreement showed that the countries of the
region were willing to ~,~o~Tk with other developing countries and to make any
~,’,~s~r ifice in o::de~" to support ~:elevant measures to achieve collectiveD~,~ = y sacr,~e].f-~ieliance. [[be @evc, i:b2<"d ~.,a~-~ket-"ec~3ne~Y countries had al:~5o strongly de:[e.~ffed a
:,.<-:~ .~!stributiona! XPF <~’l:,}<u~’:!.~}:e be,,~ef~ting the least deveJ, oped countries.
Therefore, it wc~ald be only reasonable to expect the major donors to accept their
share of the responsibility for the full implementation of decision 80/30.e~ " , however, the technical cc.~o.l..~eration delivery base...... rdlng to the Admini>-.t:~ter
...... ,,.~.~,.,~.~ be <~7<’..<~:2 --.- 73 ,’;~r cent of e~)ected IFF :<:..<;:.w:~.t..ures, and the third
: ......hions pledged seemed 9o i,-.::ulv ~_,,~ the donor countries49. The low level of <~ov~<~ ~;, ......
did not believe in t~ie ]f:ast ,~.~eveloped countries’ cap~c!ty to absorb significantly
....... ~ .... d technical ................ "" ’c,~,.,.._._: ...... ..n programmes, and that they .~-:<~.ed the political will
~:o ~n:-:-ort a :.~_:!t_~,_.=~:= ~ ~ ..... ~ ~:hich had p~oviae,~ ~ .... t~f:nt co-operation for
. . " u.CQ.. C .Ictl,e entire c~eve].op.ing ..... " ..... ~<eas of vital importance ~c,~ -~,ocial and .... ~ ’"
progress.
50. His delegation was <o~~vi{,ced that technical co-operation programmes were
extremely important if un~e~tanding and the strengthening of relations beat%’een all
cot~~es of the ~rld ~.-~e to be achieved. In that area~ U~U]P ~cas the ~io~t
important central organi}::ati,on end must be sustained by the entf.re internat~o~°~l
c~.m~’amity. Of particular concern were L’ e ~:~c!~asing number of field contributions
through ~hich ~eveloi>ed .cc~untries gave ~.:,::ority to specific a[eas, thus bypassing
the principle of ~3©v~:~:n~::~::::t autonomy in <-~::tg:b’...+~h~ng priorities ~÷,~d selectingpr.ojects for techn~c~:l co-ope~’ation. U~::D? ~0s.~t not become an in~:It~:ul;:~.,nt of
technical co~-operation for bilateral p.~.]{c~es on behalf of any i~?~:ivic~al co~nt~y.
His delegation would support co-flnancing ar~:~r~ge~7~ents which cont~’ibuted to the >ore
efficient -~mpleme~tation of specific p~;¢’.~ec~~ e~d ~-~:ogra~r~es, pFovi~ed that the
principle of gove.:,::i:~ental authority in the ~;~;’r~’..i:’:~i:ion of each co:~itry’s ownp~:ogr~:~mi~:~es was p:c<::e:~:ved and the n~ces::~:y ] .,.~.-r:l of fLnan~ial ~e~:,ou~:ces for the
third cycle ’,~as ~:eached. ~;~
51. Although the prevailing world econo:~lic and flnancial situation h~:id s:eve~:ely
affected countries at all levels of develo~.~i::~nt, it had ~:.n;>~i~ed the developi~g
world the most, particularly the medium--i~co~e countries which were imp]e~e~tii~gc~:~%pi:ehensive progra[~mes of economic and ~ocial de~ ^~ ~.~ ~_opi.ent. Nevertheless, thosecountries had not =~a!l_d’ ~ to give LFNDP their full support. The Latin American answer
to UK~P’s problems involved an increase in contributions, the co-financing of
programmes and proj~cts and a genuine effort to reach net contributor status
whenever po~:sible. The other developing regions of the world had also st~:e~sed
their co:::~iD:,aent to Ui.LDP, and many developing countries we, re prepared to ;sake a
major contrib~tion to it. It was obvious, ho,~.:ever, that the developing ~orld could
"-<.not by itself fu~:~h: ~- the cu~:e for trNDP’s financial situation.
]52. Many de!egat.~cr:s f~’c,:-, the industrialized countrY.as had pl¢<:ged thc:.ir >up~.ort
fo~ (:.he c,0m:~:on .>ff<:,:t I o foster econoi~:.ic and social rJevelo ::ne~,~t thi:<:::~?~h .......
..... :.S,~.~<on therefore found it difficult to believe that theinternational coia>~.ity was willing to run the risk of a d~stic ~-~ -- "
current and future "~ ~-" " "cc~lvitles, and was convinced that in years to co~.:e the majordonor countries would reconsider their current position. According!y, his
delegation wished to ~t~.ggest the following course of action ’~ .............
third cycle should be :eft unchanged for tb~ .... Z:- ......... ~,~nt. Rene:,’e~ co:.:: :.~ ~~"’ ~;~ w:;th
full account of that rea:>tessment should~.~ t:a:~,s~/::itted to all Oov~:v~.-.: ~ts as >~oon
as possible. In close consultation with the other agencies involveG, the 1oq:DP
administration should d,-av~e ways and me~..~s of curtailing > ~ ~’*~- e ~?~n~].~.c.:~v,.s~ includingthe reduction of ....... ~o ~ -.~: -~. 1,st~:u~ctu~:e, :::d:i.thO}’~e! c~5.:,>:ts~-,aho.lld ~ be :.:,::g~e c-g: .... :: :,:: [onal.Jze r..>:’oc--’-, : :-o- :-¢:’ v>:c<~er toi:~.:::uce operational co:us;" ::-o:t::.~:ov~t-, af~ec,.,, ng~ ~" field p~.ogra::~:ees. In i:~2.L~:-:?7:tin.,~ allthose suggestions , the iA:::inistrator should bear in :~ind that the d::..~i~ed objective
was the maintenance of a viable and meaningful programme delivery for the third
cycle, In that conne.wion, he conu~ended the Ad.::inlstrator’s efforts to ~ationalize
L~P’s o£:,:’ir~tion~l ~:’:~:’c:t~.~re ~,d fully end,re. --a ~...... ~,, t~ .... suggestion in C~:.-_/c::’~t DP/hl5 tocut newthe:,,.~ic~ ..... " eva.iua.Lion ,:~-,~,:,t,.~ ies. The ......... r¢-~:vance of such studios; %~ ,;,e’
developing countries was <~oubtful, since their approach was very 9~_~’t,.=~-al and theyusually did not make practical suggestions, in a period of scarce fin a~cial
resources, UNDP should be concerned primarily with the promotion of c.’p~ratlonal
activ lties.
re~©ns could be found for estab].i,~i~tg s~ch separate ch6.n’~: ~; ~.o meet sp~.cific
.~-:r.-,::~-o.~1. or ~eogra[~?~.~:,! ,r~ec~s. In ~:~_,cog~’~Itlon of that f~’.~- :~.t~::ia h~d b~eo77~e o~eof ~’: ...... ~’~ trib’ ~c’~~ ~"~:~c ~!iain c~n I ........~ to the UnJ.~.!~.,d ~.~atlons Indust~’i~! ;~: .... ~’iiient Fund ~:’~nd the........ a
~u~.,.-~ tions Inte~m:i.~ F~nd for Sclc-~,,ce and Technology, a~d h~d vo~:ed ~nL~..,,’~"~~.-~,. of"~,r .................... ......~:ab!~’shit~.~nt of t,~,~e ~cial Fu~%d for Land.~-].ocked Dr:.v.-,~.- ,"°:-’..~ Cour~tr’les. it
~,~:.)u!d co~tinue to ju~]ge each case on its i~,erits, in the l~ci :.: of the Ad.~T~Inlst~;ato~’s
.~ ..... :~. to ~:covi~e the ~,~in~t.~tl.~ f£~ ~cv;ork for ~p~~,c~l f...~.~;~ based on T;)~Ov’s
be a.].lowed to dive~t D}.~DP f}_"c;n its ~-,ain fui’~ction, %~hlch ~{-a~ ~i~.~ ~2~,ovis.{on O~
technical assistance with a re--i~v<;~t~ent orientation. Ut~.~ ? ~’~>uld not beco~e an
ozganization dedicated to research, and its activities sho~]<~ not overla.p ~.~iththose of the World Bank and the r~gio~-:.;.~l development b<-~:nk$~ b~yc>nd the <~.lea~?ly
defi~-~ed tasks of the United Natio~is C~wital Development ~h~d.
59. Decision 80/30 stood out as an ex~~;ple of internat~o~al solidarity in :;o ffar as
its provisions for the utilization of available funds during the third cycle ~ere
concerned. On the supply side, however, the compromise contained in that decision
~.~as considerably ~ -’-~ea,~er. It %~as based on an artificial growth target which was
Q f’f~.~.ently by ~ifferent ~,7<~]atlons. Many of the trac]itional 0onors,i;~c].ud~ng Au~.~tr. ia, had ,":~c~f~.~d_~ ..... that they ~:egarded the 14 per c~:.nt target as an
cver--all g~:owth ~.~ate to be a~hieved pa~.~t].y through their o~n effor%s and partly
through the tai~i.~ing of new ~.~e,~;,ov~;ces. Furthermore, legal provisions in those
countries ~;(~ade it ~p~:;s:ible for them to enter into bidding ~d~Iti-.year co~;~it~l~nts.
F~].ly, the ].4 per c~h ~vc~,~th t~rget }lad been based on exc~%~nge r~tes psevail~ng
~-~’~’-~e than a yea~: ~,~.","~I,, O~’,;.atic shifts in those c~~’,~~
~i-;i~ear as if a new c~,.:’~:e~’~,cV ~ore .~ud~enly being used. At least one third of ~q~e
sbo[t-fall could, in his opinion, be ascribed to ~/~at cause. Nevertheless, the
short- and medium-term fu~,ding problems shouid be neither dramatized nor played <~own.
60. In his delegation’s ".~,:,v~,~.~ ~, those p~oblems could be overcome only by a gro~:!p of
co~ce~ted measures, i}~c" ~~’-~.~..~.~,~ "ci~e’" fol].lo~ing. Resources fz~~ hon-t~aditionald:;:,!.o~s, especi~]ly the ce~’p~{ t~l-~.~:[5~.].u~ ~.~ve.l...oping countrY.as, ~hould be fully
[,~obilized. All recipient co~ntries ~.ole to do so should make ~;enewed efforts to
rea~ch net contributor ~u-~,~ ~s soon ~s possg.ble, in order to free resources for use
in the neediest regions and countries. Full use should be ~de of the incre~sed
"~’~:--,-, :~- acv.ruing to a:__~;..::’~..:~: h~id in ~.hat ~3urre~;~cy s~c’4J_<] !;; -:;.>;:i:~~i.zed. To "~:h~t
b~dgetary peric~ for ~b~ch ~;}:~y ~ere pledged. Administrative expe~diture,
~,;:-~,..,~ at ~:,=,~c~L, ........ r:;~ c~-.ould be frozen and reduced t:~<-~-r~-ver ........ possible through
rigc~ou~ cont~’ol of ~.c:cu~.: ~-.~’_:~ t;.<~n, a reduction in ~ ,] ~’ ........." " con,.~ ...... ~,,.~_~ ~ervices and at leasta ~i.~-~°a:cy f~e’...:e o~ ...... :-÷ ~.t all levels. All po~s.:{.bi.~,~ties shuld be explored
~ihh ~:~:~sard to at le~:.t ~r:~;:~--~;.~. cQfur~di:~g out of the United ~:~.tions regular budgetof the exp~nses of .... ~"~’- ~’~ ~uJesentatives not directly ~.~elated to programmes, or
rei~’:~bsurse~:~ent for the s<:~o.q.c<_;.~ they rendered to specialized agencies. A solutionto the problem of accumulat:[nq a.~o~nts of non-convertible curr,.~ncles had to be
found; it must respect the ,,::- ............ ~y nature of contribut~o~-~s~ but still assure the
fullest ~<%~’~.~)~,~ utiJ.:[7~a.t;!,::~ <.f ~.-ho~~e funds for the bt~:f[t-of developing ......... " ~,-
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53 Continuous .... ~: ;~,’,~ng, as su~,_,,ued in docu~:~ent DP/SlS; ~,~ould imp~.ove the
~an~::gement of ~ :::’:~,:’:~;I co-op<~ation activities. ~be succesi~ of such an appxc~ch
.~iould depsnd ~:~:’~ ~’f ~.,;~ the suo~ort~ and ~J~ctive participat~:~ of @Svernments.,.acll[tate thep~o" ~,,,~,~"~ .... and
Si~ilarly, the ~: , .~-:’L~.on for country progra~aes ~,~ould ~: "
app~oval by the :’~i~:::cil of country p[ogrammes and migBt ~;e4uce operational cus~s.
that furthe~ c.:: :~:~C:~:;~tiOn 9br~uld be given ~°o ~:he que~3t~on :~< convening a ~:pec~al
~{~eeting of ~.he. ":oxxcil ~n Feb~u~y I~,~3.
54. His delc{~£:tion fully endorsed the A<~m~.ni,~t~:ator ’,~~ vg~ews on pre-inve~:h~’~ent
activities, co3t,~ined in document DP/521, pars<~aphs 33-36, ’fhe ultimate 4ecision
on how to use ~:{DP resources for 4evelo~>/~:ent ~:ested ~ th Govern~nentsl U~DP was ~’;ot acapltal-financing institution or a body in cha£ge of 2):oject app,:oval for ~;ubn~{:::~:on
to financial in~stitutions.
55. With ’resp~:ct to the future contributions of countries ~[th a ~ser ca~a_ Gi{P of
over 81,500, he wished to stress that decision 80/30, pa~:’o.giT;~.ph 6 (e), did not~:~},~t the increasedaffect the vo!unta~y nature of contr~out..ons to []NDP, a~%d "’ ~
....... ~ c ......sidered within thefin<ncial buJ:<~en for the medium-inco~i~e countries ,~h,,]Id ~e ~ .......perspective of increased financial support, at ac<x::i:~tab!e levels, for UNDP f~o~ ~he
industr~allzed countries¯ The expansion of cost-sha~ing financial modalities ;::~st
be taken into account within the over-all framework of thoEse countries’ fln&r~cialparticipation in D£~OP activities.
m { _ _ .56. His Ge].~g{~,tion reco~,@nded ~i?p~oval of the c~>u~",t;:y }:~:<,~;:~:~s,es :~ub~litted ~:(~{; t:he
Council’s consider:at!on and strongly recQi~mended the £~:v~sic, n of Guinea ’~B[ss~,u’s i~’~
so that it 9~ould ~each levels more compatible with the ~’i{:.~ :so£ that country° Yt ~:~s
the duty of all Governments represented in the Council to p~:ovide the administ~at[on
with the means required to carry out ~ts tasks effegtively ~d to reach the ta~getswhich the Council itself had set. ~{e was confident d~at ~},’< Cs~ncil ~o,,~].~ live ,~p
tO the expect~<.~,ns of the deve!o~g world. Th:c©~gh t<:~c~;[~c~;l c@,-cQera~ io~%~
establishment of a new international econcx~ic order v:©~Id be f~0£the~$ed, and :o~, ,,, sthe instrument ~¢hlch should be used to tackle effectively sc~e of the most se~io~s
problems confronting the developing ~:orld.
57. .................................. [~r. SC~Z~{~D (~%~:~:t~ia) said that h~s :o~*~trv,., ~ ,--~%t~n~:,~;~:] .......... io ~%;~;d UNDP as ,~:~
single most ~:q.-o~t,:;,nt channel for technical .~es~;:ance to ~e!oping countries a~’~das a co-ordinating agency with a heavy responsibility for : s~ntaining the co59~;ence
of the development effort of the whole United Nations system. His delegation wasdeeply concerned about the recent atte~i,pts to tear aport the United Nations systemof technical co-operation by denying UI~P its central role. The malntenat~ce of the
system was ~n ~:he i~terests of developing and c~eve!oped cot~t~’ies alike, a~d ~;~,sdelegation believed in the viability of such a unified, effective and act~on-
oriented system.
58. Conseque~tly, the establishmest of r~ew ~u.:d~ng mechanisms in the field of
technical a£s~.~,t~,.~ce should be app~:o~ched w..rn caution. Certair~ly, cempe!l~ng
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in the spirit of the acceh,.:~d principle of ::~rliw:,~4"~l~L’y. 1,~aturaily, all those
measures would ".’~ave Ro be accompanied by n=’,,~ ~,<<s on the part of tra~ztronal
con t r i b~ to r s.
61. With ~:~sf:,~.,’;t ’to t}~a immediate guidel~ne~ for the ~.:antinuation of Ui:,~DP’s ~4ork
and its administrative h£:,%dling, the basic decisions taken in resolution 80/30~hc~’,i]d be upheld It ,-’~s mot yet n~,c’e:-::,-~:~v t.o in~ro¢]uce the l~,nc, ar c~ts provided
for in that ~ c.{~i©n {poe the full ~xt<-nt of ~" --, " I’ ~ ~ "~
a cycle could only he co£rectiy ...... e:~.s~3 to",.xrds the end of ,..he psriod. On the,4
other hand, f,)r¢...,e ...... )!e expenditures had to be kept within the ]im.{.ts of fore~i<~eab!e
resources. In order to maintain the high l~’~el of services expected while at one
same time s;~tisfying exlstJ.ng rules and m%gu.lations which ensured a sound fihan<-ial
basis for ~,>~wa~.d p]a~ming, his delegat.{c~n suggested 1:hat for 1982, 20 per cent of
the iPFs establ.!shed on the basis of reso] ~tion 80/30 ~*d~ould be held in abeyance as
long as the current financial constraints continued. That margin of secu~:Ity could
be reduced to 10 per cent for 1983, and full programme implementation could be
projected for 1984. His delegation was convinced that such a temporacy re<°~ucczJn ofexpenditures w~ald not ’~’~,..,:~.ve any serious repercussions on the prograK, me’s real
value. Yn connexion w:[th the added res[~..,:,,,:b~]’t{es .............. the administratio~ would :",.,.~ce_, " ~ irein carrying out ~pach a gradual freeing of ¯r,::sou~:ces, his de1<gat~on ....... -~]-.~9
.~_ careful c~isi<~eration to <~2~e Canadian proposal concerning a more tho~otH;h mo;)itoringof progra~B~e imp!e~entation through more freque;)t meetings of the P,p..dget ,.a~d },~_~.>’~>ce
Comm i t tee.
62. He pl<,,:o.ged hi:: ,<-r,u~ <y’s ,{R~k,port for all ~,<= ware/-¯..oct{rig ~< m,:;, ro~*’]isLic
approaches wn’~_ch would ,. :.~,u,~e D~at UNDP f,’,,~c-t~on,::-.~ in the sevv~:ce" of ’ch:~ Jv:vcq.op[ng~- countries.
63. Mrs. GONTHIER (Observer for Seychelles) said that her country co:~tinued
require substanti~l fin~.~cial, technical and econc~dc assistance, but unfortunately,
the measures ai:~,~ed at i~creasing such a~!~si~tr;’,c-~ pro~,ided for in c~e~ral A~semb!y~solution 34/126 h~d ,-~ot b<.:en implemente~, l:er ceo~ta C~P was not ~ {~cce,,.;-tsble
basis for comparing small and often isolated island States with conti;~ental
countries. The GNP fa{!ed to reflect the disdadvantages faced by Seychelles and
other island develoFi~g countries such as li:eited Ropulation, remote ]<~:’,~;t~on, lackof res<>urro~s and sk~,~]~:< , ~ cr:i:~onnel, an u;i,.qlv,=~v<:,fi~::d eco~’H::.~y and ao’.-~_:-:~’:t:}re,
<ver..deL__:dence on ~¯<,,-r’:,-<, <¯r.,d transport~_tlo~ i- "b3¯tms-
64. Severe econfm’..ic constraints had forc~ ~-, ....... *~c._-]-_..,e!.,._s tO close two of }ts threediplomatic embassies in the previous year. Priority was being given to trying todev.~lop a diversified economy a~d providing ~e~:~-n+ health care, l ............ .~ :q~d
education.,_or: the ,’~-~r ~,~ i~¢..,r ~elegAtion rccu.: ::t,¯d +’~at the Cou~Jc~! -’-’" tbecriteria for IPEs in the case of small is] ..::d developing countries x_.-- Lo ~i~,d
eonc<ete ways and means of helping ’ ;,;"~.. ~,-~ ~:.~ with small popul ..... _,~.,~. had
been e~ected_ that the third cycle IPFs for countries with a per c~°’-~e~’~:,.a (R~P below$~000 would be larger than the second cycle IPF; however, in the case <,~ the
Seychelles, the third cycle IPF was 70 per cent less in real terms. %~!~]e the
5.-~-~b-.~lles GNP figure was relatively high by third ’~.’~;i(] sta~>:~ards, ~ ~s -~::_gely
artific~a! and failed to take account of thec~-"~-*-cry’s economic vu!ne~:~b~lity and
r6m~teness. A high ::; t ’~te population <end other factc~:s te~%ded to inflate the
figure; thus, not fi~::: but the specifics of the country’s situation should be
65. Her country’s ~.e~o~:c~,~s were scarce, and UNDP assistance was dec]ining in real
terms, while the cost of i;.r~plementlng projects was cousta~l:ly rising. Her
de!egeation was req~:~::t;7::?9 that a jl~st and acceptable b~:sFs be u~;ed t:,:hen am~:~ll ex~-~d
J,~olated island Stat,<s ~ :::,~e co~:qpa~:esd with ,’:’<~ntJne~tal countries, She hoped ~;l~at
that request would be giv<:n serious consideration. .J"
66. Mr. KOLBY (Nor~,y) aaid that, in his J,r:~tro~uction, the A~gmlni,~:~trator h~Jd
~->ointed out that the ~eFsi’)~.~:ctives for the deve~oplng co~unt~;’~es ~ere ~arker ~h~n eger
her,re. Although during the 1970s most developing cot~:nt~Jes h~d co~;~e very close to
achieving the "~= ~ }~;~:ions target of an anr~ual 6 [.~r cent 9~o~th in GNP for {.:.he
Second Development D~:cade, at the end of three (~ecades of international action
d<voted to social and ~conomlc progress, there had been a £~:amatlc increase in the
gap between rich and poor ~ations and, at the s~me time, g~;o~;Ing disparities between
the low,-~ncome cour, t~’ies and the rest of the developing g~;°o!},p. Cucrently, more
people were livJ~g ~.~l <b~o!ute poverty than at the beglr~:!~g of the 1970s. The debt}~u.~-cL...~n of developing ~ount~;’ies had ~nc~eased d,~mafi~cally, .;~nc] a ~i~h~ber of them,
esZ~ecially in Africa, were faced ~i[~h serious fc~od short.~ i<~a.
67. In that situatgon , ~+hich called for b~)]od initiatives, the eo}c~:ent standstill in
the };o~;th-South dialogue a~d the atal,<~ ~- .to in the prepa~:at~c,,s [<.~: global
ne~gotiations were all the moi’e disquieting. His ~-ove~n~’~ent L~d on ~everal occasion, s
sln:essed the importance of an early launching of the global ~}egot~;~:tloqs, and be
hoped that the forthcoming sum~it in Ottawa would bring new l~om.;~ntum to that
process.
68. A major issue in the global negotlatlons would be the t~r~sf< ~: of resources
f~o~n rich to p~gr countries. The ini-<rr~::~io~al target for offlc:~aZ ~h~ve!opment
as~{istance for the Second Develo[~ent D:=cade had been set at 0.7 ~:~ ~ c~nt. Thetarget had been reiterated and strengthened through the establlsbT:ent of a time-
frame for its attainment in the new International Develop-~ent Etrategy. His
covernment fully sv:pp<>~te~ the target as %~ell as the new 1 p~F <~t ~et to be
-<:ached as soon as Z- " le thereafter. As c:~e of fou:¢ dev~:~ : o: <~u:;t~es, Norvay
had al~:eady reached :-[ ~t target.
69. Over the years, Vorvay had channelled a large share of its ODA to the United
Nations system through ~P. He reiterated his Government’s support for %HCDP as the
central funding, p]s:~r~hG and co-ordinatlng United Wat~ons organs for technical
~ssistance.
70. In view of the increased need for technical assistance to developing countries,
it was regrettable that the Governing Council was faced with a critical short-fall
in anticipated resources, particularly since all Member States seemed to acknowledgethat U}~P was indeed a unique progrm~me. It was universal in character and provided
assistance to mor~ than 150 nations and territories, in full partnership and
co-operatlon withthe developing countries.
~!, ~: qcve~,:<ent a’,~ ,ed ~,p,<~c.{a]. ~n,~:,->~:t~-~nce to DNDP’s a~!~[y Lo ~eslw~nd to the
cha~’i,~.{ng neighs of ~evei,~?~n’,g cou)~t:<i;:~s. ’i:he allocation of r<!--:::::~es for the th~:d
ch, cle as set out in c~i-.i~on 80./30 ~.~<;~<:~ ly put emphasis on ~’ < u~:~%nt needs of the
kK~L countries, an~ hi,~ Gcve~n~ ~:~t ......~p?<~rted the al.~oc~t:’-,,’,, C<>:<.<,~ula in that
<~ <~ ci s :[ on. "
72. In the thi~:’d p~:o:~:ca~~i’~..~<’g c~:.~d.e, <,~ :~ :~.<u],af ;,.t::e~’~tlen ~,c:~1:~ be given to the<.:>~e of w~:,en in the ~>,,r~<-,,-,,.<)-,~t f,~:oc<~ss ’i:ime &nd monc, y -:~ 5~’~ o"i
c~:eat]ng s{~!aried employm<~;topp:>~tu~::i:::s for "" " ~.~.s
pco~est groups in developing countries.
73. With inflation rates and curre;~cy f~_uctuations, the annual ~:o~th tar%,.,t of
14 p~r cent for the thi~:d pnog.t:~:;~mi~’~.g cycle a<~opted in deci,<~ion 80/30 might te ,<~. <-~~ts a minimu~ to ensure the momentum of {:he programme. In the !].%ht of <-u~ ~:,,.nt
indications from major doi)or countries, that g~owth target appea~ed unr.e~llst~c.
’?cce~t figures presented by the Adz~Inlstrator indicated that the planned progi’amme~,els £.or 198~ and 1983 might have to be reduced considerably, unless the resource
.... *,.. ,, :%s ituati,:<n i~,~p;:’c-~,ed northly. In the ,~,~<.~c!~.:,.., U%~DP’S fi~,.~~’~clal ~:~l~:nn.[Dg must be
~.~,~,#-d on ~ea!istic P~o<.j~:’,P:,"~°~g levels. ’fhe pcop:~cts (:e~-Lf~:’o~ti~,g the programme were
d~tu~:bing. The slt~tion ca!IE~d :C,’)r a f~,nk and cons;Tuctive ~>’:c~i,::~ige of views
a~,.o;)g all 4elegations.
74. vo<~y, tog{~tL~;r ,i~:h o<:her ",:To~’<~ic countries, had fo~: y~::a~s been a,:~ong the(
... ,,.~ ~~<.y~ ]~.:::°[~g :°~’,~ last years of th0: s c,j)Id uk.<;~e, t;,.~ ,:<:.:<d~,c
c~>unt~]es had c,ont~~>’,:,~ed ~.?.~;:;.y 30 i~.,r ce~t of the total ~;.,;o: ~.ccs of iJJDP. If the
growth target for the thi~:d c~,cle ".,.’as to be reached, it ~,:~ald be nec<s~;:y for ’~--’.<~:’e
countries to contribute a~ increased share of their ODA to UNDP and for mo~ecountries to become net co~H~rihutors. It was evident that a number of developed
i[~u[tria!ized countries cgu!,] contribute more. His delegation agreed with Ca~ada
";:b~t the focus of ~’he ~..,~!~ :<;-,::~t~:.u~ s . - -<:c:~:::~=~t~:ated on a limit<~l ’:2::c"i? of d,--,~’:~~s ~,’ho trudltlo"~;~l]y b~:td [.>~ne ~’le <]<{:.:.tt >~!k
of the U~{DP financial [:-~.~:~n. In that <;onnexion, it was ~elevant to focus .~t~-{~<~..ionhad received f~:omon the 6,irect benefits ......
g number of industrialized count~:i~t~;
t,,e prog,,:amme as suppx~’-~ ,~,~: of gooss and services. There v~,ts clearly a need for a
....... " the 1970+ .....
*’heC m~e~ ~us establishing 0<~<% ~< ~- ~ c~ntral technical a~ig~t~:~:~a o~gan within thethe nu~ber of
.... .~y,~ ,., . =,.~ ,R_::~.,. :~°~,ent was therefore coDcerned about
;.~<~< ~=5~.:dal ~u~d~ ~hich ~.:::~ ::~<-~?-~ been established within the United Nations
:3 ...... ~" Whe ~~et ,--.:.,~!-:- "" ~: f~ ~,entatio n of %:he ~:c::~.<~,.:<,:c:~s available to U+{~DP
,- ’ d "ncrease~ administra ~: ~ ..... :osts. That~.:,~°y.~ tO the United ~.:at-,,,:u --..-.: .... <.~ "-
"# --tion of r~,~ ~ds , .....{..7 ~,,- ~-,--,tr, ntial resource basis fo’~ ’01’:,"DP a’nd the
~esoU~ces e.vai!.able to the ~::Civb~ual developing countries through their IFFs. He
hcped that the pro]iferat~e-~ of n, ew funds would not continue, but if such funds were-~" ]~tered by UNDP, and fu~s ~lread~y entrusted to
c.,~:tabl.{.~})e~, they sho~’.]d be ~,.~,=n .....O~bP s<,:.-~Id be as c!os, eiy ~n%u,~,~,,ted in the country p.:Ogr~.~.:"~.~’:~g process as
po~,sibie. His Gove~:nment ,-?’.s ~ike~:ise concerned about t’-.~e t,[:n¢]ency of. bodies
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~Iready u~der the O~¢bP u<,~rella to s~ek i~c~:ased ~.~to~(~y, ~.~nd ~=<~~Id like to see
that tl~cnd rcvcr~d. !T~DP ~hou!d al~o baue a c~’,~i~! ~o!e in tT~e f©l!ow-up of the
United Nations Conference on New and .%%enewab!e Co~,~:<~es of Energy and the UnitedNations Conference on the Least-Developed Countries.
76. U£{0P’s pcoposed s~p~,!c.~,~entary budget ~<=o~}’td {~’~c~m~;~se the ratio of adm~ist~c~tive
costs in ~elation to p~og~amme e>~enditu~es ~,~,~ ~,d the level that :,<:~s e~cc,ept~ble to
his 4elegation. If th~ total re~cu~ces of U?<<~P ~ ~:e not increasing in ~eal te~’es,
the administrative exi~er~iture ~hould not [Dc~,~!~e. At a time when Go vc~in~ents,o~,J.ng to financial const~eints, had to set a ceiling on [c, osts and staffing ~;nd on
ad~inist~ative bu4gets, it was not possible to ~uc~pt a larger increase of ,’~taff in
an organization financed by taxF~yers’ money.
77. In view of the great cost of the field offices and the general services which
they rendered to the United Nations system as a whole, the possibility of hav]~ng
part of the cost financed through the regular budget of the United Nations and the
United l~ations institutic~s making use of those services should be ex’p!o~ed.
78. His Government was <©ncerned about t]’~e ~,"~,~,<~<~,y~,-~ ,’ of a number ofoe~:~ ....... U~’~ited
Nations bodies to i~cr<~ase their field repnesentatlons. That quite often ten,’~ed to
duplicate a function ~,hich could and should be performed by the Ui~DP [es~.~ent
~epresentative. The fie~<d representations were extre~ely costly ~nd ,~,~ ] g~;~atly
to the adm~nist~:’~tive ::-’:~!i::~ of the United~,<~"~,..~ symptom, ~.~n~ ~- a tim,~ ~i~n ,~c:<~rces
for technical ~ ...... " ~oe sho~ing ,~c °’~ ’ ~" <~:~d~ct~on
in real terms.
79. His delegation noted with interest ~2~e proposal m~de by Canada for lw.~v~ng
quarterly meetings of the Dudget and Finance C~mittee. More frequent contacts
between the ~dministra~o~2 c.><~d Gover~ments ,~¢<~re of special impo;~ta~%c~ in tLe
difficult’financial ~Tit’~; ~ Lion facing E~DP.
80. Mr. DADZIE (Director-G~neral for Develo~_ent and International Eco~.~o~dc
Co-operation) ssid that the %~orld economy was, and had been for soma t_~me~ in
state of acute disequil~’~’~m~0.,.~,. There was deeD. co~cern about the ,~"b~y,~.,~ of ~he
int~-~n: n~ tiOn~l econc>:~[ < ~,~:~’,i~em to resolve the .~<:~lt~ p!e ~:nd i~,~ter 1<:~,~! o ~ ..... ’ ~ ~ ¯,~ ~ thatcu~_~rently b~’_~et it a~d to ~ut .{~n place a viable p~ocess of inte~-~<~-.~.~_~_~i
development. Rq%ose c,’].,-c,e~:~’~s should not give rise to 6efeatism. R~t~e,~:= <:~yconfirmed the-historic n{:cessity of fashionsing new patterns of Inte~at~o;~alco-operation to resolve ~ cr.... e isis of the world economy, impartinga=-~;.<~sn" ~c,~ntt~ to
the gro~th process a~;~d r~pi@ly ~8.apting ztructur~l ~e!atlonships so as to ,-cc<.lerate
the " .... " -’~ ~ " . ~=’,:~:~ <.<.~,,~:ht~ n ~ ....c~,,~opm~,nt of the ccvelopzng countries ................ i inteY~n_:~ ...... <<>o,~-~o~,,,[c
relations in recent }’ears had fallen considerably short of those objective;so The
focus had shifted fr¢~ bold changes to "crisis management", co~%~prising ad hoc
remedies and palliatives applied to various s!mlptoms of the underlying str~ctural
malsdjustments. In s~e crucial fields, including money and finance, ........ ,~~,~ion ofthe put, chasing power of 4eve!eping country exports and access tom~,~-~-’"~,~=t~ t~"
pr~ ....... ~ of change w~s at an early stage. ~4ost develcoing countries %~e~e <till
~-~o~-~.~.,.~.y and fin~ncJ;;~] i~-~t~fi~tlons and a nu;:ibc~r of .... -" ........ ¯ ............ ̄ - ’. .... . .... <.~:~j,.,s’~. ,~.:..,~.s in their .~,
oper.~tions. A measu~e of p~;ogress had also been regi:~;i-~red J.n vega~°d to the ~r~les
of the game" governing bebaviour in certain markets. Sc,.~e ~’~ew institutions
i~t’oviding for more equitable participation by developing c.ountr~.es -- notably IFAD
~nd the Common Fund -- had been establi!~h~d to deal with p~::oblems of particular
concern to developing count).’ies.
82. There was a wide, but regrettably not yet universal, appreciation of the need
for an external env~rom-~ent that was fully supportive of the ~ational and collectiveeffo~.’ts of developing countries. The strategy of collective self-.-rel~.ance as a
i’.~.~,~ns of accele~:ai:.J..~g ~’he develop~’~ent of ~<;ve].opi~ count~:~es ar~,d ,~ontr_ibutir~g to
<.be est:~:4_~!i~hm~nt of ’tLe n<~w int~,,£national eco~o~’~ic o[’de£ h~d ~’ec~ived iml~)~:t~nt-~:~t,.~.~_d of the r~ature of~- b’~petus in recent ~’~o~,_%s. A better under°stranding }tad been , "~- "{ .....
the develop~t~ent proc~ss and of the ultimate aim of develov’:[ent, [ ......... ly, the constant
i~0[3~’ove;z%ent of the roll-,being of the entire population on the ’:~-,-is of its full
pa~,.~c~.pation in the D~;oc~.~;;.s of develo/.~0.-nt and the fair d~-,~-: ~b~-.h’~.~ of thet~e.... ,’. " ,,-<-,,, . . ...... of non--c~,pJ_tal
....... { ’ ",. ofsources Of growt/~, ~Ju~:~h ~.s hu~i~.n ~esou~ce ~evelop~4ent, and t~;fL~ ........ ~ ~se
productive resources, which were the £ai~on d’etre of the te<..~,~,,~<.,;~, co--o[~eration a;’~d
related operational activities of the United Nations system.
83. It was in that context that multilate~:°al technical co-o?~rsticn ~:,:cqu!red itsOCVe’to~> ","~, <~O~’~flt:~."ie.S tO~:~:o~er v~lue, for it sought to st£e~gt;~n [:he c~,zpaclty of "
~tt~,~J.n their develop~uent goals through i[,~puow~;,~ents in the av~%~.~..~.~.<ity or u,’~e of
hu.~o~:an, material and financial resources.
84. f/~P had fashior~ed a capacity to evolve constructively in %e~:p..~nse to changing
,4:~.,: ~s and perceptions. ~be Governing Council It~.elf had be.on ~t tL,.~: foi:’efront of
t}w.~:t i~aginative e~f~:,ct ~.o develop new approacLes to tecLnic~:l c:i-c’:~’~:Jcion from the
!e~ssons of experie~~ce. [~he 1970 Consensus, reflecting the p£’~~ci[,F_e of each
country’s right to determine its own path to 6evelop:~ent, had affir;z:ed the
prerogative of deve!op~ng countries to make their own choices regading the
allocation of UNDP resources placed at their d~s?~osal. Five years later, theGoverning Council }~,~ ~<~e~~d that multi!steral tecb.~icai co-o[~,%};~tJ.on ~’-hou!d
thereafter be oriented towards the exclusive objective of the n~;tional and
collective self-rel~ance of developing countries. The previous yeer, the Council
had adopted a decision on the allocation of UNDP resources for the forthcomingprogramming cycle that was pregnant with implications for the future of the
programme as a ~o!e. [~DP provided developing countries with opportunities top.~ticipate in a ~ni%ue International partne~-;hip for develop;~e~t, it had benefited
f~om the active part~clpgtion and technical support of the organizations of the
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(Mr. Dadzie)
Un i t’.{~,d ...... "....... ~.ons system, ~2articularly the specialized agencle~, . .....~ <,~th its~’.ter.,u~v~ net-~ork of field offices, ~DP had enhanced the co~t.,’ibdL~on of the system
at the co~at~.y level <..~d ~-ov~d~,~~ ~ ...... ~,~ v~]uable ;~.~;sistance to G,~, ~.<-.~:ts in the ta,~k of
co’-©rdir~ating external ass~ ’ .....
Rb. With ~:eg,:rd to ~’.<~o ~.Tir~e and !>.~,si~ :-¢~t L"P b<d:n~’~en th:~ ,’-°" : of deve].opj~,g
<:",u:0t~:’ies and the resources av.:i.l~.~ble for ~}-.~ ope.~fatlonal ~.::’, :~.~Ji:~es of ’ ,,<t:~.: . Ur:~ tedI::~:.<~’::~... . :system, it had been no a.c:<:,:nte " " ""’u:,at" ::he ~eneral A~s::~,,b:y, in definir~g ::he
over--all objectives for the ~estructuring of those actlqitie~, h:’;d given pride ofp].aee to d:e need for a real increase in the flow of r ......
,.~.e.,ourc,.,.,. for ,..t ch actfu~t.feson a p~edictable, continuous and assured be:sisThe "<~ <.¯ ~.,:,,:..u_ of Lhe adaq~n:cy of
resources, along with the intimate]y related p~oblems of eff:;c.ier~cy and
effectiveness, had been central- themes of the comprehensive policy review of
o~erational activities undertaken by the General Assembly at J ts thirty-fifthsession.
86. The figure ;:~’do~>ted.. ~ .. by the Go’~:ernJng Council in 1980 for [’.he purposes of fort,a~’d
planning ~:epresented, ~n his view, the max]mtm~ increase that ~o~].d enable UNDP to
:a:".i~%tain its programme in real tee’ms and to enhance its re~:,:~-,’,<~e to tAe urgent
~.--~ ................. of developing count~-ies for multi].ateral technical co-operation.Without a considerable real increase in resources for the o[:~ational activities ofthe Unit~<~ Nations system, on a p~edic..":ab].e, continuous ~nd ,-- <~-,,.d I-).~.~is, I Ji.~DP’s
PO~,"’arti;~! ’~,:o::Id tenrain un:~e;:~tJl{zed.
87. The fundamental p~:oblem of L*econciling short-term uncerta~nt{es with long---t:...z.mdemands through the int~:oduction of more permanent arrangements for the ,financing of
UNDP appeared no nearer solution. As a first step in that direction, the General
...... =,mb_~y had urged all co:.~nt~;i::s that were able to do so to i~dicate, while making
their D!e£r~es, their n~obab]e c?~~t~butions to the system’s ooerational activit{~.,~]
for ~,z~,<~i:!:,:~ent for a m<:ik-~y~::~? ->~-:’ic>£. }L-c.wever, fundamental imoovements would ’ ’ .~to be "::ought in the way in :<%~zcn ’,."~:{op was financed, in order to enable it to ensure
predictable and assured te.:b:~ic~i co-operation flows to developi.~:g countries insup:>ert of their deve!o<:~-,:~ °,t ,’,., ..... ~"’"~s
.......... or s appeal I.:o b:.:~,, ~,."ve the basis of
]°~:e-’q’:cisi:’n’ ,~<~opt,.-d by L::’~ ’:<’~-’.<:-~! :n ].980. He hoped that all <~::nor countries,
~.<~czeu~arly those 4-,v~c,~.~< " ies....... =~- c;_,t,~:u: whose over-all performance was notccm:ei~surate with their capacj.[y, would make greater efforts to meet the targets towhich they themselves had prevlo:.,sly subscribed. However, the :[mr~ediate situation
facin~ .... ~ U~DP.~ could not be ,~".’= .............. :_ore "~h~.~ serious problems <:o:-’, f~.,-:,nting otherd~v~.~,... :.,,~ cc-o~:>eration o"- ... .re;is of the system¯ The~e --.:e.~:e signs that the
trend towa;-ds multi!atera]icm :;ez:ceptible during the 1970s might now be halted orreversed in the direction of b-±ateralism.J’ If current policies continued, the
prospects for significantly er/~a,a~ed official development assistence flows as a
},,hole, in which U~DP might be .~...~..,-.-~’-. .....~"ed to share, would be prone to increasinguocertainty.
/ .
G ,\ ~ r,..~. ~ . ; : ’,.;;-dies. P:c’og<c’.mme evaluation ,.o ........ ~ c.n b~:oad
:5<~ct©~al or lnt~,~r,’.:a<.,~,a, ¯ -.~es of op~ gational concet’n - a;.’.d cv.a!{~:~,,;:ion of
[n~ivid,~al projects .... ~’,j ,m~d<’cta!::en co]laboratively Ivy the Cc\,-,-i,}:~tmentst,~o,:,eco~’xce~~ed, the agenci .i ’~:°"" and continued efforts were to be matte in ’
,...<,, oc.(~k eva]~atJ~>~]r~ :i.:~-~e c Lions, par ticu ];~ ~- .... t:.:’c<~.~n the dive. !oDment {of ~.east]~:es to e....~ ~.-ree:t~!ts into progc~y<-:Y:S:o :~-,?v>rt:heless, the C::~,,.c~:al A~:..,,.’~embI.y ~.,. ~.ts tb,.;:ty.-.-fi,,_h
se,:,~.ion had i~,vited-., ]_ ,,c%~n~.za,.ions of the United tqati<,ns :%,~tem to c>.~.ve]o~,=&nlnlsu~.~tkve and other support::>~ecific reco~mDendaticns o[% m<~asures to £educe ’ ’ " ’ .... ’
costs and to achieve maxJmvml harmonization of admininistrative, financial,
bu<~getat’y, personnel and plaything procedures and to improve ,)~.’oject p~:,)ce ’~ ..... .
92. So far as the co.-o~.’dination of operational activities at the ,:c,mtry level was
concerned, one major d~_w.~Iot;ment over the past year had been the comJ.ng into effectof the new system of ~[ie].d representation through resident co-o[’dinatot’s acting for
the United Nations system as a whole. Pursuant to the understandings reached by the
C’~,~e~al Assembly, tho~;e ~es-ident co-ordinators were to prc~ote at the country level,
~:,hd ;n accocdance with the objectives and priorities of the Gc-ver:nm<!~nt concerned,
~,<pvoved coherence of ac.t:’on and the effective integration of the vat’ious sectoral
i~,puts from the orga~i’..{;-~tio~’~s of the United Nations system. To that e~’~d, the
:ces~7=nt co-ordinators %:ere to under’take over-a].l ~esponsibility fo~, and
eo..-,o~_dination of, o2erati©nal activities for development ca~:’r~..--,~ ,~qt .It the c<>~.mtry
level. ~.~ey wo:~Id ~]_:::o c~:c.<’cis~e team leadership and evolve ..... - v,c;-Y(try level a~{~:~].:5~:scip!inary d]~,~en,tion in the .>~ecto~cal deve].oE~ei~t ~::~{.~.._~...~e ]c;-.~"~0es og Lhe
Un. ited },’ations :~h’ tern. Resident co.-o!-di~ators were to act ~0h,,..-.)Z.y ~ ~~:",f}let~J.y in
confom~ity with the c,::ite}:ia and prio~:ities established by the c~.:.y:[..c->t ~.at.[c~~alauthorities and were to support the Government in shouldering th< ,::o-,>~:dinationresponsibilities of that Government to the extent requested by the <.c petulant
r,a tional author ities.
. ’ t~_,c.t. ...x . U!qDP re.~2.; ?n ~ ~’ t!ve <.’3t.~l.d93 The agreed arrangemen~:s p.~-ovided ’"~"- "he ~’" { "
, e-,-,. - >,- -. ]d,’.,ox:m~lly be designated resident co-ordi,°,ator so that the officie, t ...... ~ .......;,ed wou
have two functions - that of resident representative of UNDP, in *-c]~ich capacity he..... :.:.t cc-o~°~ina tor,was directly responsible {:o the Administrator, and that of ::es:{~’ ’~,
’~"h::ch capacity he h~d l’n:c:.~:d .-’:~nd general re~ponsibi!it~es a~~<t <_,:_~ ,.,:.-,’.’,-:’!~tien func"’~o’~
on ..... .,,~..f of one sy ~i-., as a ~;.qoze. The At{..;ombly l-ad elv3 d;> ,..: ".- J ~: the m~qd_.Us_
<7-.Y- .......[~!~! of {he resi<~e~t <.-o--ordinator should not ~.~.-ect .re.~.on.~<:.n.. b. ;. g~:nGovernments and indi~idua! organizations of the United Nations s~st~m~ or the direct
c ........ *,un~ct~on between the representatives of thoselines of activities and ~ ...... " "organizations at the country level and their own e,-:<.cutive heads. ~<~ .~suob!ishm_nt
of ~[’,~ ..... 7~ew syst?~.m o[ ~°~:-::"...~,,_,~ co-ordinalors h<.d., teen ~:]u~’sued~ in ~ ~,_ .~"" ~ ::it’._boratic, n,~:i. th UN~P and in c<<: c~. .~: c.n v,"ith the organizations of the Unit<.a i.’;~ *~ ..... ~-<,~<.., ,o sys’~.G!tl ~S
a whole So far ,-~,:~.,:..~ ~-" ~<zs’:.dent co-ordinators had been desz~na~:a by the
Secretary-General, with the consent of the Governments concerned and the fullco-operation of the Ag~!ini,~trator.
94 In conclusion, ’. i:.Sd a tribute to the co~’~si~ant efforts of ~.c-~n up~der I:~:,~
very able leadership ~. <.he A,~ministrator, to improve its effective~-~ess a’~d, r~,~’~ove
all, to enhance its ~:elc-vaT~ce.
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94. K:o ff!N:OUT.TN (Obsc~rver for De~,c>crp{-~c p:ampuchea) commended ¯ o]-.<:~ the results
;.,~ .,-:....~-d .:n ~ts activit;;es aimed at a,~:sisting the dcveloping <,.~< :{ ~’~_<s to improve
-h~: ::,; r,<:~,,:d of living of their peo~ ...... s.
, .~ =~sionists of Har~oi,}i:,. ......,_’4~ng the invas::on of his couhtry by the Vietnamese
z~d h~d .... .~:-;,~,{p~ted in ].980 inbNOP :.,~:..~ r~s:0ponded to the S:.~cr~=L~.tL{.o-C<~ ~r,~]-’s appeal<he [~ e~:hatio~a! emer,~N~<;h’ ’ lief op:{~{t"<&1 For the people ~[: :<:~p~chea. That:.bo:,o:..d "~ ~’ desire of UNDP a<<d :ts Adm’~[ ~:<;i> ~:or to contribuhe to the <{truggle fo~
su~v~.,~al uf the people and nation o~! K-.,~ ~,..: ...... , ~ .............g
z,.~at ~’antrJ , l~.ke oZt~di,.fi.;d_!t period in thei~ long history Although
, ̄ ..... istance had been largely diverted by the Vieh<~:~~ese invaders aridh[!~l]a Al <aZ Jan assoccupiers .to strengthen their armed forces and the r/gime they bad installed in
Ph,nom Penh at bayonet point, a part of it had nevertheless reauhed the Kemp~ ~heanpopulation. UNDP’S humanitarian assistance to the people of Kampucbea had help<:d :o
save a number of men, women and children from the genocidal crimes of the Vietna;m~se
occupiers and augured well for UNDP’s important future role in the reconstruction of
w;.~m ~<~chea after the eel:tern victory of the valiant struggle of the people.
and97. ;:~:s d<:~]<:gat~on atc~:.~,..~ ~zeat imL w.’t<~’:,ce to agenda item 6, ~Country<ntercountry progra~m;~es ~:qd projects", a~’,d ~:e~retted to see £hat, among the 14
country programmes ir~c]uded, that for the ~{Socialist Republic of Viet }[am", which
ran~:eo’ ’ ~ second in or~er of imo<)~-~ IN:.~’~ce. Since 1975, Viet Nam had received ].a~:ge-,u.cale{.. ",~.c~," ~.., ganizations and from ~<~ny in(]ustrta].l~,.dass[qta;~":e [co’."~ variod.s T;% :: L<~d N.~LIO-%S O:d
~:ounl ~_ i s, H<,~i,]{g,.Ter, _[ st£:---" ,-,q :~q i]..~ ",:~ug -;:h:%t a,<’t;# st:a~’~{’.’e, it;7 .~-~’.;’ ~ ~,~ith nat’[onal
~:’eso~):.::ces, for the ~<_{~s :<:~ctic,n ....,¢ Lheir S.e~,.astated co’~n{~y , ~}d the [mp~<p~<.;..%nt of
the ]_iving conditions of: L]..e_ VJ ,: ........... ~ the Hat’~oi .Rrt]~o~:ities had ,,::iv< .,:ted
them to serve their ~’IndochJ.~.:.se Fe:ieration" strategy and their [>olicy Of agg.,:e.,{~[on
and expansion in South-East ;~{a After the annexation of Laos thorough theso,-ca)_le4 "Treaty of .T, riendP~Q? ;:,r~d Co-operation" of 1977, they had tb~n lauhc~-~ an
a :. co~-~d [nva ;’~_<,n ~ nir~-,~,l invasion of D~,o,:;<~-’t;O :’~ .,r~chea {n 1977, followed b~’D:_~ce:.~ber 19"78 with lazge~.~.c~.1.e ~::---::i:~,tar~ce fr~1~ the Soviet ,-. ,.,~. h’he Viet,~a~ e:.~e
arm~, ~ was the fourth largest in -che world, and all Vietnamese ~,.~tional re:;~o:,.,~:~s ~,d
foreign ~ssistance were being mobilized for the continuation of the aggression
er,,<!~’mt, end occupation of, ~:7=~u,cbea. Almost all the humanitarian assistance{-~- :z<-] <~or the ~:,ople --i: <; ,, :<.~’~a ~.;,ss d~verted to those o :;upyi~g forces. Even
},u ~,~.<:arian a~.s/st~S~ce ":: _. =: -~,<,~.ase p<~ople ~,,~as used . ’. , {!y to maintain t.he
98. That militarization of Viet ;’{am was the principal cause of the reduction of its~-- conditions in Viet Nam ,~ere worse than they ha~
agr’.c<~]Lural production. ~:,: i ~ving
~.-:~::~,, ,~;:’~g {:h~ ~ar~ in ....." ’ ",,:~fore 1975. The number of -;,<]at~,r.~people"
o -~ -3e fleeing famine and forc.t~ ...........nt in the
i’.qcr,:~q~ed mo~-~:dq!y~ ]hc~e ,,~:- .........
H.,.~ ~ ........ i-~,~..-<~ cut by reports in the internes i<:.,%al press.army° ’ 4~- ..~,a,_,:.,~,,ents we.~:e
99. ~ni!e the industrializ~d countries had frozen their bilateral aid to Viet Namuntil it withdrew all its troops from ~ampuchea, in accordance with General Assembl.~
~ , the ~gram~e of assistance to viet Ham wiffhresolutions 34/22 and ~_./6 ’-~’- .- ¯contributions from those count~:ies would short-circuit the[~ policy of peace and
justice. Such a programme ~{od,].d run counter to the current ,~ffo~ts of the Secre’<a~.General of the united Nations ~<nd of all countries which cared for peace and justic
to implement resolution 35./6 and hold an interna~:ional conference on Ha:~:’,p~chea in
order to a~:rive at ~:.n ag~:</-ment on t]~e to~:al w..:",.~,r~’::~wal of Vietnamese troops t.~
Hampuchea and, fol.]_o~:i~g that retye~:.~t, the o~g:.:ri:[’.~c.t:~oa of free elections in
Kampuchea sulm-~rvised by the United V, atio~s, i~., ~d to 1he Hanoi authorities would
only prolong the war being waged [}y Viet ~a£I ;:,bd N]tail thoI~sands of additional
deaths daily in Kamp~chea.
]00. ~}NDP a~sistar~ce prozr~:~mmes were not tied to ,lit:[cal condit:ions, b))t tbat{~
a.ss:[ztance had b~.en given o~’)].y to countries ’~4"dch ~:esfacted the ind~:pc<{dcnce and
territorial ii~tegrity of their aeighbours. Viet~amese regional expansion was a new
historic fact, because it involved a develoi~ing country which had embarked on a
course of neoTimperialism. Should the world close its eyes to the foul crimes ofthe authorities of that e~ansionist country on the pretext of past usage? All
prog~ammes of assistance to Viet Nam would have fatal consequences for the people of
Kasnpuchea and for the efforts of the international ccm~nunity to re-establish peace,
security and stability in the region.
].01. [{is delegation opposed the adoption of any programme of assistance to VJet Nam
so long as that country had ~ot withdrawn all its invasion forces fr~’~ D-.mocratic
Kampuchea in accordance w’.{th [:he relevant resolutions and the Chaa:ter of ~,
-Nations.
].02. He appealed to all <r::~bo:s of the Gow<~r~-~ing C,~.u~cil to have pity s.n t}~7: "~ cp]e
of Kampu~{ea, ~,:hich .:~as <,:.,9:i~g a heroic struggle ~.ct on].y for sur~ival b t /" c~ fo~"the inde[x~ndence of ~iI casn’:~ [,os and for h~t:e~:~m~tional peace and s(:Ru~:itvo ’£:,.-~[.r
_...£~csitive votes on resolution x5/6 had made it L,@:~sib].e to alleviate the suffc~gs
of the people of Kampuchea and ehcourage their j~st struggle, which was cu:~’~!:i~t].y inthe strategic stage Of balar~ce of forces. He appealed to States not to do a:~vthing
that might aggravate or pro?©ng their sufferings a,,r~d i’:~y.>ede the deve!o<<~<eKL -.,f’ ":h~-:.tstruggle, in other words, not to adopt any pro~:a~’~<~ of assistance to v~,,t ~,~,
%N~e meeting rose at l~15~.m.