Agrees that measures to deal with the transit problems of landlocked developing countries require effective co-operation and collaboration between those countries and the neighbouring transit States; urges the international community, in particular donor countries and multilateral financial and development organizations, to provide landlocked and transit developing countries with appropriate financial and technical assistance in the form of grants or concessional loans for the construction, maintenance and improvement of their transport, storage and transit infrastructures and facilities, including alternative routes; invites landlocked and transit developing countries to promote bilateral, subregional and regional arrangements, as appropriate and in their mutual interest, designed to facilitate transit traffic; urges the international development bodies, in particular UNDP, UNCTAD and the regional commissions, to expand further their support to the landlocked developing countries, including technical assistance programmes in the transport and communications sectors of those countries.

Adopted 144-0-5, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 22 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 139-141. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).