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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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CHAPTER I - OBJECTIVES |