UN General Assembly
1962

29. The recommendation of the Cairo meeting happily coincided with, or shortly preceded, a resolution [917 (XXXIV)] by the Economic and Social Council at its thirty-fourth session concerning an international trade and development conference to be convened in 1964. It is, however, our earnest hope that the General Assembly will recognize the urgent element in this question and appreciate the considerations which have prompted the conferees in Cairo to call for this conference early in 1963. 30. It is a happy coincidence that the United Nations Development Decade should coincide with the Sudan Development Decade, officially known as the Sudan Ten-Year Plan. While the former was proclaimed on 19 December 1961 in General Assembly resolution 1710 (XVI) and will not practically be, implemented until early next year after the General Assembly has approved the programme of action proposed by the Acting Secretary-General, our Ten-Year Plan was proclaimed on the ninth of this month but actually started on 1 July 1961.