A Round of Global Negotiations on International Economic Cooperation: A Preview

At the end of 1979, the General Assembly of the United Nations decided (1) to launch, at its special session in August 1980, ‘a round of global and sustained negotiations on international economic cooperation’. The holding of a special session had already been decided in 1977 for the purpose of adopting a new international development strategy for the Third Development Decade and to assess the progress made in various fora of the UN towards the establishment of a New International Economic Order.