Decides that an ad hoc panel of distinguished, expert and experienced persons, broadly representative of the international community, to be known as the "UN Panel on Opportunity and Participation", funded from within existing resources and supported by voluntary contributions, shall be appointed to conduct a comprehensive study on opportunity and participation for the economic and social advancement of all peoples with particular reference to the economies of developing countries; requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States, to appoint the members of the Panel from lists of experts within the UN system, in particular members of the Committee for Development Planning so that they will commence their study as early as possible in 1994 in order to prepare a comprehensive, systematic and thorough report guided by the consensus and principles on international cooperation for development in time for consideration by the General Assembly at its 50th session in 1995; invites Member States and international organizations to contribute on a voluntary basis towards implementation of the present resolution; invites the UN Panel on Opportunity and Participation, in the preparation of the above-mentioned study, to draw, inter alia, on the ongoing discussions in the context of the preparation of the Agenda for Development; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 49th session a progress report on the work of the Panel.

Adopted without vote, 79th meeting

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Adopted at the 79th plenary meeting, 14 Dec. 1993.