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economic and financial, social and humanitarian, decolonization, administrative, and legal issues. It also has procedural, standing, and numerous ad hoc committees. In addition, the assembly together with ECOSOC is responsible for a number of UN programs and subsidiaries including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), among others. The large membership of the assembly and its intricate maze of subsidiary bodies have made it a rather unwieldy organ and prompted repeated calls for change and reform of its procedures and work methods. See also COMMITTEE ON CONFERENCES; COMMITTEE ON CONTRIBUTIONS; CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY; GENERAL COMMITTEE. GENERAL COMMITTEE. Committee of the General Assembly that includes the president and vice presidents of the assembly and the chairs of its committees. The business of the committee is purely procedural, as it focuses on reviewing the agenda, allocating individual items to the main committees, and advising the president of the assembly in the determination of the evolving priority of agenda items. GENERAL SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES (GSP). Negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and introduced in 1971, the General System of Preferences was designed to allow industrialized countries to grant nonreciprocal tariff reductions to developing countries as exceptions to the principle of most-favored-nation treatment provided for in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The underlying idea is to help developing countries industrialize. See also WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO). GENEVA CONVENTIONS (1949) AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOLS (1977). The core of international humanitarian law. The four Geneva Conventions and the protocols that strengthen their provisions not only codify state practice and earlier treaties on the methods of international warfare, they also establish a right of relief for