Activities of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations related to economic co-operation among developing countries.

Affirms the need to enlarge the role of the Centre in promoting new forms of economic co-operation among developing countries within its mandate and in technical co-operation and assistance for interested developing countries; requests the Secretary-General to conduct a study of the experience of joint ventures among national corporations from different developing countries as their contribution to the development process in developing countries, including analysis of the possibilities and potentialities offered in this field by regional economic integration and co-operation among developing countries; invites the Centre to explore the possibilities for further increasing the co-operation between the least developed countries and other developing countries in the field of foreign investment; requests the Secretary-General to include in the study specific proposals on ways and means of promoting that form of co-operation and to report on the matter to the Commission on Transnational Corporations at its 16th session.

Adopted without vote, 15th meeting

Adopted at the 15th plenary meeting, 24 May 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 1st regular session of 1989, 2-24 May 1989. - E/1989/INF/7. - 14 July 1989. - p. 44. - Issued in ESCOR, 1989, Suppl. no. 1.