3rd United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

Requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to provide support to African least developed countries in their preparation for the Conference at the country, regional and global levels; invites the Executive Secretary to ensure that the Commission makes substantive technical contributions to the Conference and its preparatory process; invites the least developed countries' bilateral, regional and multilateral development partners, the host of the Conference and the UNDP to provide adequate technical and financial assistance to the least developed countries to ensure a substantive and effective preparatory process for the conference at the country level; requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to intensify his efforts to mobilize resouces for the participation of representatives of the least developed countries in the envisaged regional expert-level meetings, the meetings of the intergovernmental preparatory committee and the Conference itself

Adopted without vote, 44th plenary meeting

Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
3rd United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1999, New York, 20 Jan. and 2-5 Feb. 1999; resumed organizational session for 1999, New York, 25 March, 6 and 7 May and 23 June 1999; substantive session of 1999, Geneva, 5-30 July 1999; resumed substantive session of 1999, New York, 16 Sept., 26 Oct., 15 Nov. and 16 Dec. 1999 - E/1999/99 - p. 69 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).