International Co-Operation to Combat Desertification

A/RES/3337(XXIX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Conference and Meeting Services Conferences Data Analysis Data Collection Desertification Programmes of Action Task Forces

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11 operative paragraphs

Decides, as a matter of priority, to initiate concerted intemational action to combat desertification;

Decides further to convene in 1977 a United Nations Conference on Desertification to give impetus to the international action to combat desertification;

Requests the Secretary-General to authorize the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to establish immediately, under the authority of the Secretary-General, a small conference secretariat, drawing upon the resources of the United Nations system, especially the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Meteorological Organization;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the competent bodies of the United Nations concerned, particularly the United Nations Environment Programme, to convene an ad hoc interagency task force to assist the secretariat of the Conference in:

The preparation of a world map of arcas affected and areas likely to be affected by the process of desertification;

( b) The assessment of ali available data and information on desertification and its consequences on

the development process of the countries aflected, through the .enlisting of ali the expertise available from public and private institutions and organizations of Member States, including ongoing and planned research, studies and activities witbin the United Nations system;

The preparation of an effective, comprehensive and co-ordinated action programme against desertification, including the building-up of the indigenous and autonomous science and technology capacity in the arcas concemed;

Further requests the Secretary-General to keep the above-mentioned task force fully informed of the results of the work carried out in implementation of Economic and Social Council resolution 1898 (LVII);

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme and the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, within the framework of paragraph 4 above, to provide financia! and technical assistance for undertaking the collection of data and information, analyses and studies on ali aspeds of the problem of desertification and on that basis, as part of the preparatory process for the Conference and in consultation with the Govemments concerned, to sponsor, in co-operation with the regional commissions, technical meetings at the regional and subregional levels as appropriate;

Invites ali Member States to make available to the Conference secretariat, through the Secretary-General, relevant information on combating desertification;

Invites ali the organizations of the United Nations system concerned, particularly those Iisted in the fifth preambular paragraph above, to take ali appropriate measures to assist in the implementation of paragraph 4 of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution.

011 See O/]icü1/ Records o/ the General. Assembly, Twen17- 11i111h Sessiun, Supp/ement No. 25 (A/9625), annex l.

Jlev.l), annex l.

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