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TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD WHICH REQUESTED THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PREFERENCES TO SUBMIT ITS FINAL REPORT TO A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE BOARD TO BE HELD IN EARLY 1970,

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BELIEVES THAT AN EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF AN EFFECTIVE SYSTEM OF GENERALIZED NON-RECIPROCAL AND NON-DISCRIMINATORY PREFERENCES WILL BE A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL ACTION WITHIN THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT TO PROMOTE TRADE EXPANSION AND ACCELERATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AND WILL CONSTITUTE A VITAL ELEMENT OF THE STRATEGY FOR THE SECOND UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT DECADE:

2. CALLS UPON DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, MEMBERS OF UNCTAD, TO SUBMIT CONCRETE AND SPECIFIC OFFERS ON PREFERENCES TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR SUBSTANTIVE DOCUMENTATION BEING TRANSMITTED TO UNCTAD AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE IN NOVEMBER 1969:

3. URGES THE MEMBER STATES OF UNCTAD TO ENGAGE IN CONSTRUCTIVE CONSULTATIONS WITH A VIEW TO SETTLING AS MANY DETAILS OF THE ARRANGEMENTS AS POSSIBLE AND SUBMITTING FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD A SCHEME CF PREFERENCES, ACCORDING TO THE TIME-TABLE AGREED UPON AT THE NINTH SESSION OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND WITH A VIEW TO REALIZING THE HOPE EXPRESSED IN RESOLUTION 21 (11) OF 26 MARCH 1968 OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT THAT THE -

ARRANGEMENTS SHOULD ENTER IN EFFECT IN EARLY 1970.

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LORD CARADON

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

TR. POL. DEPT. U.N.D.

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