International cooperation in the monitoring, assessment and anticipation of environmental threats and in assistance in cases of environmental emergency : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
- Author: UN General Assembly (46th sess. : 1991-1992)
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Date:
20 December 1991
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its 44/224 of 22 December 1989, on international cooperation in the monitoring, assessment and anticipation of environmental threats and in assistance in cases of environmental emergency,
Also reaffirming its 44/228 of 22 December 1989, on the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
Taking note of decision 16/37 of 31 May 1991 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, on early warning and forecasting of environmental emergencies, and decision 16/9 of 31 May 1991, on a United Nations centre for urgent environmental assistance, in which the Governing Council, inter alia, endorsed the proposal of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to proceed with the development of a United Nations centre for urgent environmental assistance and decided to establish such a centre on an experimental basis at the beginning of 1992 for a period of eighteen months,
Recognizing the importance of providing the centre for urgent environmental assistance, to be established on an experimental basis, with information on expertise and appropriate equipment that could be utilized for dealing with environmental emergencies,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the monitoring, assessment and anticipation of environmental emergencies and relevant parts of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on the work of its sixteenth session,
1. Stresses the need to strengthen international cooperation in the monitoring, assessment and anticipation of environmental threats and the rendering of assistance in cases of environmental emergency;
2. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the monitoring, assessment and anticipation of environmental emergencies and invites the Secretary-General to convey it to the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
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