Plan of Action to Combat Desertification

A/RES/40/198[A]View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 84f Environment, published in 1986.

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10 documents · 1979–1990

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/172	Plan of Action to Combat Desertification resolutions	1,134	–
1990	A/RES/44/172B	Plan of Action to Combat Desertification resolutions	—	–
1990	A/RES/44/172A	Plan of Action to Combat Desertification resolutions	—	–
1988	A/RES/42/189	Plan of Action to Combat Desertification resolutions	522	–
1986	A/RES/40/198	Plan of Action to Combat Desertification	712	–

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A/RES/40/198 [A]

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Shares the concern of the Governing Council over the slow implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;

Urges Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental bodies to mtensify their efforts in combating desertifiȏtion and to accord the highest priority to actions recommended in the Plan of Action and decision 13/30 A of the Governing Council;

Notes the significant role that non-governmental organizations are playing in the anti-desertification efforts, and calls upon Governments and organizations of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental bodies to explore all opportunities of involving them more m this effort;

Urges the international community to increase its assistance to the countries concerned with a view to the implementation of their national and regional pro grammes aimed at desertification control;

Endorses the Governing Council's invitation to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to consult with the principal mternational

organizations which are funding desertification control activities in order to ascertain how the Programme can facilitate funding activities, and to recommend measures to enhance co-operation in this field;

Urges Governments of countries affected by deserti fication to accord sustained priority to medium-term and long-term strategies and programmes for combating desertification and to ensure that these are smoothly inte grated with their national development plans and regional co-operative programmes to curb the spread of environ mental degradation;

Notes the measures approved by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme in its decision 13/30 A,83 to enhance the work of the Inter Agency Working Group on Desertification and calls upon all members of the Working Group to intensify their joint efforts for the effective implementation of the Plan of Action;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session, through the Econo mic and Social Council, on the progress made in the implementation of the Plan of Action;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on financing the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;

Notes the dearth of reactions and replies on the measures for providing additional resources needed for financing the Plan of Action recommended in the three reports prepared by high-level financial experts convened by the Executive Director in accordance with General Assembly resolution 32/172;85

Considers that the expert studies deserve further consideration and requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to take due account of them under his responsibility with respect to the implementation of the Plan of Action, as well as within the framework of the mandate of the Consultative Group on Desertification Control;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session, through the Economic and Social Council, on the implementation of the present resolution.

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