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subsequent developments, and calls for the effective and faithful application of the
World Trade Organization guidelines on accession by the least developed countries;
19. Emphasizes the importance of developing human, institutional,
regulatory, research, trade policy and development capacities and infrastructures
aimed at enhanced supply-side capacity and competitiveness, as well as ensuring a
conducive international environment for the full and effective integration of
developing countries into the international trading system;
20. Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in
accordance with its mandate, to monitor and assess the evolution of the international
trading system and of trends in international trade from a development perspective,
and, in particular, to analyse issues of concern to developing countries, supporting
them in building capacities to establish their own negotiating priorities and
negotiate trade agreements, including under the Doha work programme;
21. Urges donors, in this regard, to provide the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development with the increased resources necessary to deliver
effective and demand-driven assistance to developing countries, as well as to
enhance their contributions to the trust funds of the Integrated Framework for
Trade-related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries and the Joint
Integrated Technical Assistance Programme;
22. Welcomes the generous offer by the Government of Ghana to host the
twelfth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in
2008, and expresses its gratitude to the African Union for its support for Ghana in
this connection;
23. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the secretariat of
the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to submit to the General
Assembly at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the present
resolution and on developments in the multilateral trading system, under the subitem entitled “International trade and development” of the item entitled
“Macroeconomic policy questions.”
68th plenary meeting
22 December 2005
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