Invites UNCTAD to continue, inter alia, to follow developments in the international trading system; stresses the urgent need to continue trade liberalization in developed and developing countries, including liberalization through a substantial reduction of tariff and other barriers to trade and the elimination of discriminatory and protectionist practices in international trade relations; requests UNCTAD to continue its special role in promoting the integration of trade, environment and development; reaffirms the need to give priority to the problems facing the least developed countries; requests Governments, organs, organizations and bodies of the UN system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to take concrete measures to implement fully and as a matter of urgency the UN New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s; stresses that Governments, as well as international organizations, should extend technical assistance to developing countries to enable them to participate more effectively in the international trading system.

Adopted without vote, 86th meeting

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Adopted at the 86th plenary meeting, 16 Dec. 1996.