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PREAMBLE |
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THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT, |
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RECALLING the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order adopted by the General Assembly, |
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RECALLING resolutions 93(IV) and 124(V) on the Integrated Programme for Commodities adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development at its fourth and fifth sessions, |
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RECOGNIZING the importance of, and the need for, proper and effective conservation and development of tropical timber forests with a view to ensuring their optimum utilization while maintaining the ecological balance of the regions concerned and of the biosphere, |
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RECOGNIZING the importance of tropical timber to the economies of members, particularly to the exports of producing members and the supply requirements of consuming members, |
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DESIRING to establish a framework of international co-operation between producing and consuming members in finding solutions to the problems facing the tropical timber economy, |
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HAVE AGREED as follows: |
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Sect.1 |
CHAPTER I - OBJECTIVES |
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Art.1 |
Article 1 |
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Art.1.1x |
With a view to achieving the relevant objectives adopted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in its resolutions 93(IV) and 124(V) on the Integrated Programme for Commodities, for the benefit of both producing and consuming members and bearing in mind the sovereignty of producing members over their natural resources, the objectives of the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1983 (hereinafter referred to as "this Agreement") are: |
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(a) To provide an effective framework for co-operation and consultation between tropical timber producing and consuming members with regard to all relevant aspects of the tropical timber economy; |
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(b) To promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber and the improvement of structural conditions in the tropical timber market, by taking into account, on the one hand, a long-term increase in consumption and continuity of supplies, and, on the other, prices which are remunerative to producers and equitable for consumers, and the improvement of market access; |
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(c) To promote and support research and development with a view to improving forest management and wood utilization; |
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(d) To improve market intelligence with a view to ensuring greater transparency in the international tropical timber market; |
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(e) To encourage increased and further processing of tropical timber in producing member countries with a view to promoting their industrialization and thereby increasing their export earnings; |
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(f) To encourage members to support and develop industrial tropical timber reforestation and forest management activities; |
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(g) To improve marketing and distribution of tropical timber exports of producing members; |
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(h) To encourage the development of national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of tropical forests and their genetic resources, and at maintaining the ecological balance in the regions concerned. |
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CHAPTER II - DEFINITIONS |
