UNITED NATIONS GeneralAssembly Di st r. GENERA]. A/40/6s0 18 September 198 5 ORIG]NAL: ENGLISH Fortieth se ss ion Iten B4 (f) of the provisional agenda* DEVELOPT'IEIII AND INTERNATIONAI ECONOITTIC CO-OPERATION: ENVIRONMENT Problen of rennants of l^'ar Report of the Sec retary-Gene ra 1 CONTENTS I. IN1RODUCTION II. ACTION TAIGNPURSUAM TO RESOLUTION 39/167 .Paragraphs Pag€ A/40 /r50. a5-25422 16070 (E) A/ 40 /650 Eng 1i sh Page 2 INTRODUCTION 1. The present. report is subnitted in response to General Assenbly resolution 39/167 of 17 Decernber 1984, in r^,hich the Assenbly requested the Sec retary-Gene ra 1 , in co-operation ni-th the United Nations Environment Progranne (UNEP) . and other organizations of the United Nations systen, within their nandates, to collect all inforinat j.on in expertise and availabl-e equipnent, so as to evaluater on reguest, the actual needs of the devefoping countries affected and to assist. tbose countri.es in their efforts to detect and clear naterial remnants of war; called upon all States to co-operate in carrying out that taski called upon those developed countries directly responsible for the presence of remnants of war to intensify bitateral consul-tat.ions with tbe aim of concluding, without undue de.Iay, agreements for the solution of those problernst requested all States to inform the Secretary-Gene ra 1 of actions taken by then in the inpLementation of the resolutioni and reguested the Sec r eta ry-Gene ral to submit a detailed and comprehensive report on the implementation of the resolution to the Assenfrly at its fortieth ses s ion. 2. General background information on the problen of rernnants of war. which has been before t.he General- Assenbly since 1975, appears in tbe report of the Secretary-Gene ra I submitted to the Assenbly at its thirty-ninth session (A/39/5801 . II. ACTION TAKEN PURSUANT TO P.ESOLUTION 391167