Requests the Secretary-General to enhance technical cooperation activities in order to assist all interested countries in attracting foreign investment and transnational corporations so as to contribute to the implementation of privatization programmes, in the context of their economic reforms; invites the Secretary-General to explore further, through case-by-case studies of foreign investment, new approaches to the process of privatization, administrative deregulation and demonopolization of economic activities; recognizes the need to diversify sources of funding for research and technical cooperation activities and, to that end, invites voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund for the Technical Cooperation Programme of the former UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, and requests the Secretary-General to seek to mobilize resources from various sources, including non-governmental organizations.

Adopted without vote, 41st meeting

Adopted at the 41st plenary meeting, 30 July 1992.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1992, New York, 29 June-31 July and 18 August 1992. - E/1992/INF/7. - 27 Aug. 1992. - p. 91-92. - Issued in ESCOR, 1992, Suppl. no. 1.