Report from the Chairman of the OECD Development Assistance Committee for 1970

Recommendation 633 (1971)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 26 January 1971 (27th Sitting) (see Doc. 2879, report of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Development). Text adopted by the Assembly on 26 January 1971 (27th Sitting).

The Assembly,

1. Referring to its Resolution 475 (1971) in reply to the 1970 report of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) ;

2. Recalling its Recommendation 595 (1970) on the role of the Council of Europe member States in the Second United Nations Development Decade ;

3. Taking note of the reply by the Committee of Ministers to this recommendation (Doc. 2792) ;

4. Considering the increasingly unsatisfactory situation in regard to development co-operation,

5. Regrets that the member governments of the Council of Europe have been unable to adopt a position more clearly in favour of the policy of development co-operation proposed in the above-mentioned recommendation ;

6. Recommends that the Committee of Ministers urge the governments of member States which are also Members of DAC each to commit themselves to act in such a way that :

a their annual transfer of capital to developing countries reaches by 1975, at latest, a level of 1% of their gross national product ;

b their official development assistance reaches a level of 0.70% GNP by 1975 at latest.