Developing countries asked to continue to strive for collective self-reliance.Developing countries asked to continue to strive for collective self-reliance The High-Level Committee on the Review of Technical Co-operation among Developing Countries (TCDC TCDC Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (UNDP Special Unit for TCDC, SU/TCDC; set up in 1974) TCDC Texas Cancer Data Center TCDC Tactical Commanders Development Course TCDC Tuscola County Drain Commission ) at its fifth session (18-22 May, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) expressed concern that resources available for TCDC activities, programmes and projects had not met the growing requirements and needs of third world nations. In approving decisions for adoption by the 1987 General Assembly, the 182-member body also recommended enhanced participation of private sectors of the economies of those nations in these activities. A United Nations world conference on TCDC, held in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. in 1978, formulated a Plan of Action setting out guidelines to promote and strengthen TCDC to attain greater national and collective self-reliance among developing countries. The High-Level Committee, a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly, reviews the progress of TCDC including the implementation of the 1978 Buenos Aires Plan of Action in its biennial biennial, plant requiring two years to complete its life cycle, as distinguished from an annual or a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves (e.g., the cabbage) and a fleshy root, which acts as a food reserve over the winter. sessions. Committee President Bernardo Grinspun (Argentina) said the prolonged and still deepening economic and financial crisis confronting most of the developing countries made it even more imperative than before that the mutual commitments made under the Buenos Aires Plan of Action be fulfilled. The present situation demanded a revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. of international co-operation, and the Committee should concentrate on means of improving the present slow and uneven performance of the United Nations development system in supporting TCDC, he said. William H. Draper III, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNDP Unión Nacional para la Democracia y el Progreso (National Union for Democracy and Progress) ), told the Committee that over the past two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time principles of self-help and collective self-reliance which inspired South-South co-operation had grown in importance. Many countries had undertaken TCDC programmes of their own, he said, citing four clusters of TCDC programmes, involving 84 developing countries, supported by UNDP. As a result of those four exercises, hosted by Peru, China, Turkey and Tunisia, more than 950 new TCDC projects had been firmed up, with some already in progress. |
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