Adopts the report of the United Nations Water Conference and approves the Mar del Plata Action Planº~ and the other agreemc'nts rcached at the Conference;
2
Expresses its gratitude to the Government and the people of Argentina for their generous hospitality during the holding of the Conference;
3
Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General of the Conference for the effective preparation and organization of the Conference;
4
UrgesMember States and all organizations of the United Nations system to takc intensified and sustained action for the implementation of the agreements reached at the Confcrence;
5
Endorses Economic and Social Council resolutions 2115 (LXIII) and 2121 (LXIII) of 4 August 1977;
6
Reafjirms that due priority should be given to the measures needed to implement the Mar del Plata Action Plan as well as other agreements rcached at the Conference;
7
Recommendsthat Governments should consider, where necessary, the desirability of designating national ~ater resources committees or other suitablc organizatlons to co-ordinate and monitor the implementation of the Conference's recommendations at thc national leve! on the basis of detailed national action programmes, cncompassing areas specificd in thc note by the Sccretary-General on recommendations of the Confercnce and follow-up action. 70 and recommends more p~~ular inv_olvement in the proccss of planning and dec1S1on makmg towards the forrnulation of a national policy;
8
Requeststhc regional commissions to strengthen and intensify their responsibilities in the water sector ~nd, to thü¡ end, assign specific responsibilitics to an mtergovernmental committee within the regional commissions, in accordance with thc recommcnc!ations of the Conference and with resolution 1 (V) of 16 May Re90lutions adopted on the reports of the Second Committee
1977 of the Committec on Natural Resources, 71 with the allocation, if necessary, of additional resources;
Requests the Committee on Natura! Resources, at its spccial session, to review plans and programmes prepared at the national and regional levels and to formulatc immediate and concrete steps to promote and sccure thcir early implementation;
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C alis u pon the Secretary-Gencral to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the rcsults of the special session of the Committee on Natural Resourccs and on the measures adopted by the whole United Nations system for the implementation of thc Mar del Plata Action Plan and the agreements rcached at the Conference.
71 O/ficia! RccorJs of tire Economic and Social Council 6~ Report (!f tfie U~1ited Natio11s W,;/cr Confcrencc (United Sixt_,·-tlr ·,-d Scssion, Suprlcment No. 2A ( E/6004), cha p. 1: Nations pubhcat1on, Sales No. F.77.II.A. l 2). cha p. l.
sect. B. and E/ 6004/ Ad<l. 1.
70 E/6015.
,-~ /bid., Supp/emcnt No. 3 A ( E/6013 /Rev. l ), para. 165.
