Stresses that the achievement of the right to development requires a concerted international and national effort to eliminate economic deprivation, hunger and disease in all parts of the world without discrimination, in accordance with the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, the International Development Strategy for the 3rd UN Development Decade and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States; emphasizes that, to this end, international co-operation should aim at the maintenance of stable and sustained economic growth with simultaneous action to increase concessional assistance to developing countries, build world food security, resolve the debt burden, eliminate trade barriers, promote monetary stability and enhance scientific and technological co-operation.

Adopted 135-8-14, 75th meeting

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Adopted at the 75th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1988.
Concerns achievement of the right to development.
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. 203-204. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).