The General Assembly is convinced that, with a greater proportion of technically qualified volunteers currently being reqruited from developing countries themselves, the United Nations Programmes is assuming an important role as an instrument of technical cooperation among developing countries. Also, The General Assembly appeals to the Governments of the Member States to consider contributing to or increasing their contributions to the Special Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Volunteers.

The General Assembly requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development programme to develop further and expand activites of the United Nations Volunteers in the field of domestic development services; to ensure that the United Nations Volunteers programme actively promotes the formation of regional advisory groups for domestic development services and subsequently co-operates to the fullest possible extent with such group; to ensure that the United Nations Volunteers programme prepares and publishes relevant material on volunteer and domestic development services activities.

The GA endorses the measures beign taken by UNV to assume the responsibility for its own recruitment, working directly with sponsoring agencies and organizations interested in participating in the programme...

The General Assembly reaffirms its conviction that the active participation of the younger generation in all aspects of social and economic life constitutes an important additional source of trained manpower in the over-all development efforts, thus ensuring the increased effectivness of collective effrots necessary for a better society.

The GA requests the ECOSOC to study the feasibility of creating an international corps of volunteers for development...