WELCOMING the decision adopted at the recent Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Finance and Petroleum of OPEC member countries regarding their participation "in an international conference, such as that proposed by the Government of France, which will deal with the problems of raw materials and development";

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RECOMMENDS that the agenda for the negotiations between
the industrialized and developing countries should
include the problems of raw materials and development
and should correspond to the basic interests of the
developing countries on the basis of an integrated
approach in the context of the close inter-relation
between monetary, trade, financing, problems and
scientific and technological co-operation and the
need to preserve the solidarity of developing countries;
DECLARES that to ensure effective participation by the
developing countries and due consideration of all their
interests, such a conference and the preparatory
arrangements for it should be open to participation
by a representative number of developing countries
to be selected by the developing countries themselves.
DECIDES, to that end, to hold, at United Nations
Headquarters, at the initiative of Algeria, a meeting
of the developing countries with a view to establishing
a common position and platform and to nominate, on an
equitable and representative basis the developing
countries which would participate on their behalf in
the preparatory meetings for the conference.

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CONFERENCE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ON RAW MATERIALS

Dakar, 3rd to 8th February 1975

Resolution 6

CO-OPERATION AND CO-ORDINATION BETWEEN THE ASSOCIATIONS OF
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PRODUCERS-EXPORTERS OF RAW MATERIALS

The Conference,

STRESSING the importance of the action by the associations of developing countries producers-exporters of raw materials in the restructuring of the present international economic order;

CONSIDERING that the results already achieved particularly by OPEC member countries were a guideline for future action by other developing countries producers-exporters of raw materials; CONSIDERING ALSO the need to ensure close co-operation between these associations in order to increase their bargaining power, on a fair and reciprocal basis, in the defence of just prices for raw materials and the purchasing power of the export income of developing countries;

REAFFIRMING that the producers-exporters associations, as an essential element of the national commodity policies of developing countries, are designed to ensure co-ordination in production, research, development and marketing in order to protect their income, enhance their market positions, and successfully face the well-organized buyers from developed countries, thus ensuring fair and remunerative prices from exports of their commodities;

REAFFIRMS the unity of developing countries and their unwavering solidarity towards developing countries producersexporters of raw materials, especially petroleum.

URGES developing countries further to strengthen their existing groupings;

DECIDES to recommend the establishment of a council of developing countries producers-exporters associations of raw materials, and invites these associations through the governments of developing countries members of these associations to engage in consultations with a view to working out the modalities of this consultation and co-operation body. Such a council should have the following aims and objectives:

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(a) implementation of measures to recover control of resources, production, marketing and distribution;

(b) organization of regular exchange of experience and results between the various producers-exporters organizations

making their common expertise available to any group of developing countries producing a primary product and wishing to establish a producers-exporters organization;

(c) harmonization of the actions of the various organizations and, if necessary, mobilization of common support for any particular organization, within the framework of solidarity among developing countries and effective exercise of their sovereignty over their natural resources, and the exploitation, processing and marketing thereof;

(d) defence against all forms of aggression, economic or

otherwise;

(e) promotion of financial assistance between the various

producers-exporters associations in the financing of buffer stocks and such other forms of market intervention as its activities may require;

(f) identification of the common measures to be taken by producers. exporters associations in order to control and regulate the activities of transnational corporations, with a view to consolidating the permanent sovereignty of developing countries over their natural resources;

(g) research, encouragement and assistance in the establishment of new producers-exporters associations.

DECIDES that a report of the council shall be submitted to the Co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries.

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CONFERENCE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ON RAW MATERIALS

Dakar, 3rd to 8th February 1975

SUPPORT FOR CIPEC COUNTRIES

Resolution 7

The Conference,

CONSCIOUS of the need to strengthen co-operation between the developing countries with a view to improving their export earnings from raw materials;

CONSIDERING the difficulties of the present economic situation in copper exporting developing countries;

STRONGLY SUPPORTS the action undertaken by CIPEC Member Countries with a view to safeguarding their interests in respect of the export price of copper;

CONSIDERS it essential that CIPEC countries succeed

in their action in order to stimulate the other associations of raw materials producers.

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CONFERENCE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ON RAW MATERIALS

Dakar, 3rd to 8th February 1975

Resolution 8

PROGRAMME OF SPECIAL MEASURES IN FAVOUR OF
THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

The Conference,

CONSCIOUS of the fact that the deterioration in the terms of trade of the least developed countries is particularly serious for the development of these countries, which, as a result, are experiencing increasing difficulty in maintaining trade in their products at just and equitable price levels;

CONCERNED at the financial difficulties which developing countries are experiencing in obtaining supplies of primary products;

DEEPLY CONSCIOUS of the need to give concrete expression to the solidarity between developing countries;

1. INVITES the developing countries which produce and export these products to grant favourable terms of payment to the least developed among them;

2. INVITES the developing countries with balance of payments surpluses and which import food products to invest in the agricultural and stock-raising programmes of the least developed countries on the basis of appropriate guarantees;

3. INVITES these same countries to exploit and make use of the non-depletable energy resources available to the developing countries;

4. DECIDES to set up a permanent committee for technical assistance which will be responsible for the transfer of technological knowledge from the developing countries to the least developed among them;

5. DECIDES to convene an intergovernmental group of experts, attached to the Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries, to prepare a more extensive programme of action in favour of the least developed among the developing countries in preparation for the Seventh Special Session of the United Nations.

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