UNITED NATIONS General AseemblyDistr. GENERAL A/40/57s 5 Septenber I98 5 ORIGINAL: ENGIJISII Fortieth sesslon Iten 84 (e) of the provlslonal agendar I . IMRODUCTIONDEVEI,OPIIEIIT AND IIi}TARNATIONAL ECONOUIC CO-OPER,ATION: ECONOIIIC AND TECIINICAL CO-OPERATION AIIONG DEI'ELOPING COUN]RIES ration b€threen tited Nations Developrent Co-ordlnation Conference Report of the Secretary-Genera I CONTENTS Paragraphs t-5Page II. PROGR.AII,II4ES OF Tffi SOUTHBNN AFRICAN DEVELOPTiIEM CO-ORDINATION CONFERENCE A. Sixth Conference of SAEC B. Si:(th Suftrnit of SADCC C. Uajor issueg affectlng the overall developnent of tbe SADCC programe . ... .... D. Progress ln fundlng proJectst2 14 19-20 - lr - 13 -18 -204 5 6 III. Annex.ACTIOII BY TEE UNITED NA"IONS 2L - 48 Sumnary of the progress report on funding of SADCC projects A/ 40/r5O .I9 85-24300 I715n (E) A/40/s79 Eng llsh Page 2 I. IMRODUCTION 1. In lts reEolution 39,2215 of 18 Decenber 1984 cntLtled "Co-operatlon between the United Natlone and the Southern Afrlcan Develop8ent Co-ordination Conference" (SADCC), the ceneral Aasenbly comended the organs, organlzationa and bodies of the Unlted Natlons syaten that have already establlshed contact rrlth SADCC and requested the Secretary-General, ln conaultatlon rrith the Ex€cutlve Secretary of SADCC, to contlnue contacts ained. at provlding and harnoniztng co-operatlon betseen SADCC and the United Natlons. In paragraph 4, the secretary-ceneral was requestedto Eubnit a report on the lnplenentation of th€ resolution to the General Assenblyat its fortieth sesslon, 2. It nay be recal!.ed that SADCC r'as fornally establlshed by the Lusaka Declaratlon of I Aprtl 1980, entltled isouthern Africa: Towards EconmicLiberationi (eee A/39/499. annex r). The Declaratlon, anong other thlngs, affirmedthat: trIn the tntere6t of tbe pe@le of our countrles, lt Ls necessary to l-lberate our econonLeg fron thelr dependence on the Republlc of south Africato ov€rcolDe the lnpoBed econonlc fragnentatlon and to co-ordinate our efforts towards reglonal and natlonal econoDlc dcveloprent.