At its 78th plenary meeting, on 20 December 2002, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Second Committee,54 decided:
(a) To consider the issue of natural disasters and vulnerability at its fifty-eighth session under the sub-item entitled “International Strategy for Disaster Reduction” of the agenda item entitled “Environment and sustainable development”;
(b) To request the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the negative impacts of extreme weather events and associated natural disasters on vulnerable countries, in particular developing countries, in a separate section of his report on the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
