UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD 10 March-2 October 1975 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFFICIAL RECORDS: THIRTIETH SESSION SUPPLEMENT No. 15 (A/10015/Rev:1) UNITED NATIONS New York, 1976 NOTE Symbols Symbols of United lations documents are composed of capital letters combined with figures. Mention of such a symbol indicates a reference to a United Nations document. The documents of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Trade and Development Board and its main subsidiary bodies are identified as follows : First session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development E/CCMF.U6/- Subsequent sessions of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development TD/~ Trade and Development Board TD/B/- Committee on Commodities . TD/B/C.l/- Committee on Manufactures TD/B/C.2/- Committee on Invisibles and Financing related to Trade* . TD/B/C.3/- Committee on Shipping . TD/B/C.U/- Special Committee on Preferences . TD/B/C.5/- Committee on Transfer of Technology . TD/B/C.6/- Information series of the Board ... TD/B/INF.- Non-governmental organization series of the Board TD/B/NGO/-» The Proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Third Session, have been issued as follows: vol. 1,.Report and Annexes (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.73.II.D.M , containing, inter alia, the Conference's resolutions and decisions; vol. IA, part one. Summaries of Statements by Heads of Delegation (Sales No. E.T3.II.D.Mim.l, part one); vol. IA, part two, Summary records of plenary meetings (Sales No. E.73.II.D.Mim.l, part two); vol. II, Merchandise Trade (Sales No. E.73.II.D.5); vol. Ill, Financing and Invisibles (Sales No. E.73.II.D.6) ; vol. IV, General Review and Special Issues (Sales No. E.75-11.D.7). Symbols referring to resolutions and decisions of the sessions of the Conference consist of an arabic numeral followed by "(il)" or "(ill)" as the case may be, thus 1 (il), 2 (il), 36 (ill), 37 (ill), etc. Symbols referring to resolutions and decisions of the Board consist of an arabic numeral, indicating the serial number of the resolution or decision, and a roman numeral in parentheses, indicating the session at which the action was taken. Summary records The summary records of the debates in the plenary meetings of the Conference and its committees, and of the Board and its main committees, are referred to by the appropriate symbol of the body in question (see above) followed by the letters "SR". -ii- For each session of the Board a prefatory fascicle is issued as part of the Official Records of the Trade and Development Board. The fascicle contains a table of contents of the summary records of the session, the agenda of the session as adopted and a check list of documents pertaining to the agenda of the session. Annexes The texts of documents selected for inclusion in the records of the relevant session of the Board are issued as annexes to the Official Records of the Board, in the form of fascicles pertaining to the relevant agenda item. Supplement s The Official Records of the Board include numbered supplements to the sixth special session and the fifteenth regular session, as follows: Document Supplement Wo. Number Sixth special session Resolutionss agreed conclusion and decisions TD/B/5U8 Fifteenth regular session 1 Resolutions and decisions TD/B/585 2 Report of the Committee on Commodities on its eighth session (first and second parts) TD/B/51+3 Report of the Committee on Manufactures on its seventh session TD/B/576 -iii- /Original: English/ CONTENTS Page ABBREVIATIONS ....... ... xii PREFATORY NOTE . xiii Part One. Report of the Trade and Development Board on its sixth special session, held at the Palais des Nations „ Geneva0 from 10 to 21 March 1973 Chapter Paragraphs Page INTRODUCTION ....... .......... 1-6 2 I. MID-TERM REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION AND THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER; SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEVOTED TO DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION (agenda item 3) T-90 k A. Opening statements "by the Acting President of the Trade and Development Board and by the Secretary-General of UNCTAD 7 - 16 h B. General discussion ......... 17-63 6 C. Statement made "by the President of the Trade and Development Board at the conclusion of the debate on item 3 .... 6h - 67 19 D. Conclusions ........ ..... 68-90 21 II. ORGANIZATIONAL AND OTHER MATTERS 91-121 27 A. Opening of the session 91 27 B. Adoption of the agenda and organization of the work of the session (agenda item l) 92-93 27 C. Replacement of a Vice-President 9^ 27 D. Treatment of Grenada for purposes of elections (agenda item k) ...... 95 28 E. Membership and attendance 96 - 101 28 F. Preparations for the fourth session of the Conference (agenda item k) 102 - 106 29 -IV- CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Pag. G. Arrangements for the work in the arees of transfer of technology and restrictive business practices (agenda item h) . 107 - 108 30 H. International Women's Year (agenda item h) . 109 - 113 30 I. Review of the calendar of UNCTAD meetings for 1975 (agenda item k) ........... Ilk - 117 31 J. Financial implications of the actions of the Board (agenda item k) 118 32 K. Adoption of the report on credentials (agenda item 2) 119 32 L. Adoption of the report of the Board on its sixth special session (agenda item 5) • • • 120 32 M. Closure of the session . 121 32 Annexes I, Resolutions and agreed conclusion adopted by the Trade and Development Board at its sixth special session ........ 33 II. Financial implications of the actions of the Board . 69 Part Two. Report of the Trade and Development Board on the second part of its fourteenth session, held at the Palais des MationsD Geneva3 on 29 April 1975 INTRODUCTION ... ........... 1-2 76 A. Opening of the second part of the fourteenth session .... 3 76 B. Replacement of the Rapporteur ........... h J6 C. Membership and attendance ............. 5-9 T6 D. UNCTAD programme budget for the biennium 1976-1977 and the medium-term plan for 1976-1979 : report of the Working Party ...... 10—11 77 E. United Nations export promotion efforts (agenda item 13) 12-15 77 F. International trade and financing: consideration of action arising from the activities of the main Committees, other subsidiary bodies of the Board, intergovernmental and other groups - Shipping (agenda item 8 (c)) 16 7° -v CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Page Election to membership of main Committees under Conference resolution 80 (III), paragraph 9 (agenda item 12 (d)) . 17 - 18 78 H. Appointment of the members of the Advisory Committee to the Board and to the Committee on Commodities (agenda item 12 (f))............... 19-22 79 Specialized agencies of the United Nations: World Intellectual Property Organization (agenda item 13) 23 - 2k 19 Classification of non-governmental organizations in the Special Category as having a special interest in the work of the Committee on Transfer of Technology and reclassification of non-governmental organizations from the Special to the General Category (agenda item l4) ................. 25- - 27 80 K. Participation in the work of UNCTAD of the United Nations Council for Namibia (agenda item 13) 28. -- 29 80 Adoption of the report of the Board on the second part of its fourteenth session (agenda item Ik) . 30 81 M. Closure of the session . 31 81 Annexes I. Report of the Working Party of the fourteenth session of the Board ..................... 82 II. Membership of the main Committees of the Board . 111* Part Three. Report of the Trade and Development Board on the first part of its fifteenth session held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, from 5 to 16 August 1975 Chapter INTRODUCTION ..................... 1-5 120 I. STATEMENTS MADE AT THE OPENING OF THE SESSION 6-28 121 A. Statement by the outgoing President . 6-8 121 B. Statement by the President of the Board • - 9 - Ik 121 C. Statement by the Secretary-General of UNCTAD 15 - 28 123 _vi- CONTENTS (continued) Chapter Paragraphs Page II. FOURTH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT: OBJECTIVES, PROVISIONAL AGENDA, PREPARATORY WORK AND ORGANIZATION (agenda item 2) 29-^3 126 III. REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE; IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION AND THE PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER; MID-TERM REVIEW AND APPRAISAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEVOTED TO DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION (agenda item 3) hk - 91 130 IV. INTERDEPENDENCE OF PROBLEMS OF TRADE, DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM AND FURTHER EVOLUTION OF THE INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS IN UNCTAD (agenda items h and 13) 92 - llh 1^3 A. Interdependence of problems of trade, development finance and the international monetary system (agenda item h) 92 - 106 1^3 B. Further evolution of the institutional arrangements in UNCTAD: Conference resolution 80 (ill) (agenda item 13) 107 - llU 1^6 V. MTTERS REQUIRING ACTION BY THE BOARD ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO REPORTS OF ITS SUBSIDIARY BODIES (agenda item 5) 115-190 1^8 A. Commodity trade 115-1*0. ll»8 B. Trade in manufactures and semi-manufactures . 1^2 - 157 15^ C. Financing related to trade 158 - 190 158 VI. OTHER PARTICULAR MTTERS IN THE FIELD OF TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (agenda item 6) 191-226 165 A. Trade expansion, economic co-operation and regional integration among developing countries 191 - 201 165 B.