Notes with interest the proposal of the Director-General of UNIDO for a study on the structure of world industrialization from the long-term perspective as a contribution to the overall assessment of and needs for industrial development in developing countries, and recommends that the Industrial Development Board should consider the proposal at its next session and report thereon to the General Assembly at its 47th session; reiterates its request to the Secretary-General and the Administrative Committee on Coordination to submit the reports referred to in paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 45/196 in time for consideration by the General Assembly at its 47th session; decides that the item entitled "Industrial development cooperation and the diversification and modernization of productive activities in developing countries" should, from the 47th session of the General Assembly, be considered on a biennial basis.

Adopted without vote, 76th meeting

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Adopted at the 76th plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1991.