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GATT and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Richard N. Gardner
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The effective transfer of skills and resources to less developed countries through multilateral as well as bilateral channels is a central element in the UN Development Decade. But the utility of international institutions in the economic field does not stop there. They are also proving to be indispensable in coping with related challenges to the United States in its trade relations with other nations—challenges posed by a rapidly changing world economy. The first challenge is to reduce the trade barriers which presently mpair the economic efficiency and political unity of the free world, particularly the North Atlantic Community and Japan. The second challenge is to find additional ways to deal with the special problems which affect the trade of the less developed countries. International organizations are now the focus of efforts to cope with both of these challenges.

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International Organization , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , Fall 1964 , pp. 685 - 704
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1964

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1 United States Statutes At Large (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963), Vol. 76, pp. 872–903Google Scholar; United States Code (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963)Google Scholar, Title 19, Chapter 7, section 1801 ff.

2 United States Statutes At Large (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948), Vol. 61, parts 5 and 6Google Scholar; United States Treaties and Other International Acts Series No. 1700 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949), Vols. 1 and 2Google Scholar. See also Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (Geneva: The Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1952)Google Scholar.

3 See Gardner, Richard N., Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy (London: Oxford University Press, 1956)Google Scholar, Chapter 17.

4 Meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee at ministerial level, May 4–6, 1964 (GATT Press Release GATT/864, May 6, 1964).

5 Conclusions and Resolutions adopted at the meeting of ministers, May 21, 1963 (GATT Press Release OATT/794, May 29, 1964).

6 “Joint Declaration of the Seventy-Seven Developing Countries Made at the Conclusion of the UN Conference on Trade and Development” (hereinafter cited as “Joint Declaration”), Final Act of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (hereinafter cited as Final Act) (UN Document E/CONF.46/L.28), Annex B, p. 2.

7 UN Document E/CONF.46/3.

8 Statement by the representative of Brazil, Joāo Augusto de Araujo Castro, Minister of State for External Relations, at the fourth plenary meeting, March 24, 1964 (UN Document E/CONF.46/STA/7, pp. 7–8).

9 “Joint Declaration,” p. 2.

10 The New Yorl Times, June 16, 1964, p. 59.

11 Press release of the delegation of the Soviet Union at UNCTAD, June 13, 1964.

12 Address by George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State, before the North Carolina University Symposium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 9, 1964 (Department of State Press Release 156, p. 9).

13 Final Act, Part II, section V(e), p. 31.

14 Ibid., Annex A, pp. 133–134. The special committee of experts appointed by the UN Secretary-General began its sessions on September 28, 1964.

15 UN Press Release SG/SM/no, BOOSOC/2059, p. 3.

16 UN Document E/CONF.46/C.4/SR.20.

17 Department of State Bulletin, 08 17, 1964 (Vol. 51, No. 1312), p. 247Google Scholar.

18 Ibid., p. 246.