Strengthening technical co-operation among developing countries in food and agriculture : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Calls upon the developing countries to place greater emphasis on technical co-operation in food and agriculture and to strengthen and improve the mechanisms for such co-operation at the national, subregional and regional levels, especially their national focal points, so as to facilitate policy co-ordination and exchange of experience; urges the developed countries, if so requested by participants in programmes concerning technical co-operation among developing countries, to provide financial and technical assistance to such programmes in food and agriculture, including through participation in tripartite co-operative agreements; urges the organizations of the UN system and other international development and financing institutions to provide increased financial and technical assistance for technical co-operation among developing countries in food and agriculture.

Adopted without vote, 83rd meeting

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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 142. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).