Recognizing the need fully to study and review the general status of international development co-operation,

Aware of the growth of interdependence in the world economy and of the urgent need for international cooperation to be adapted to the requirements of economic and social development throughout the world, particularly in the developing countries,

Recalling resolution 2626 (XXV) of 24 October 1970, by which it adopted the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, and other relevant decisions of the General Assembly,

Disturbed by the growing gap between the developed and developing countries and by the slow rate of progress in the implementation of the goals and objectives of the International Development Strategy,

Noting that the Fourth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Algiers from 5 to 9 September 1973, called for the convening of a special session of the General Assembly devoted exclusively to development problems,/65

1.Decides to hold a special session of the General Assembly at a high political level on an appropriate date just before the thirtieth regular session for the purpose of examining the political and other implications of the state of world development and international economic co-operation, expanding the dimensions and concepts of world economic and developmental co-operation and giving the goal of development its rightful place in the United Nations system and on the international stage, and also decides that at the special session the Assembly will, in the light of the implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade:

1. Consider new concepts and options with a view to promoting effectively the solution of world economic problems, in particular those of developing countries, and assist in the evolution of a system of world economic relations based on the equality and common interests of all countries;

2. Initiate the necessary and appropriate structural changes to make the United Nations system a more effective instrument of world economic cooperation and for the implementation of the International Development Strategy;

2.Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in consultation with the various specialized organs of the United Nations, a preliminary report based on the points included in paragraph 1 above, and to submit it to the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-seventh session;

3.Calls upon the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-seventh session:

1. To consider that preliminary report;

2. To prepare a draft agenda for the special session;

3. To appoint, if necessary, a preparatory committee and to transmit that committee's report on these issues to the General Assembly at its twenty-ninth session;

4.Further calls upon the Economic and Social Council to propose to the General Assembly a date for the special session and to take all necessary measures concerning the organization of that session, including the final preparation of the documentation.

2203rd plenary meeting
17 December 1963