Discuss (b) the LDC category

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): established 1964 (the developing countries' pressure — the trade-and-development voice the GATT's rich-man's club lacked); headquarters Geneva; a permanent organ of the UN General Assembly. The organization (the structure's four organs): The Conference — the quadrennial supreme organ (the member states' assembly: the ministers-and-officials; the session's declaration-and-programme: the landmark sessions — Geneva 1964, New Delhi 1968, Santiago 1972, Nairobi 1976, Manila 1979, Belgrade 1983, the reformed UNCTAD VIII-and-after faces); The Trade and Development Board (TDB) — the inter-session machinery (the year-round supervision; the standing committees' work — the commodities, the preferences, the shipping faces); The Secretariat — the Secretary-General's office (Geneva): the research-and-analysis arm (the Trade and Development Report, the World Investment Report, the Economic Development in Africa Report, the statistics); The working-and-expert bodies — the commissions-and-panels (the investment, the enterprise, the science-and-technology faces). The membership: all UN members (the near-universal 195) — developed, developing, and the LDC bloc; the GROUP system (the Group of 77 — the developing countries' caucus' birthplace) as UNCTAD's negotiating culture.