Plan of Action to Combat Desertification Resolutions

A/RES/42/189View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82f Desertification and drought, published in 1988.

What else is in this group?

10 documents · 1979–1990

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1990).

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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15 subjects

Budget Contributions Desertification Development Assistance Development Strategies Disaster Relief Environmental Degradation Financing Inter-Agency Cooperation Non-Governmental Organizations Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Resources Mobilization Special Accounts Sudano-Sahelian Region Sustainable Development

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6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of decision 14/15 A of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme;

Urges Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental bodies to in tensify their efforts to combat desertification, to continue to give priority to measures recommended in the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification and by the Governing Council in decision 14/15, and to increase assistance to the countries concerned, with a view to the implementa tion of their national and regional programmes aimed at desertification control;

Notes the significant role that non-governmental or ganizations are continuing to play in efforts to combat desertification and calls upon Governments and organiza tions of the United Nations system and other intergovern mental bodies to explore all possibilities for increasing their participation in these efforts;

Urges the Governments of countries affected by desertification to accord sustained priority to medium term and long-term strategies and programmes for com bating desertification and to ensure that these are smoothly integrated with their national development plans and the regional co-operative programmes to curb the spread of environmental degradation;

Requests the Governing Council to submit a report through the Economic and Social Council, on the progress achieved in implementing the measures approved by the Governing Council to enhance the work of the Inter Agency Working Group on Desertification;

Also requests the Governing Council to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, throu®h the Economic and Social Council, on the progress made m the implementation of the Plan of Action.

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN OF ACTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION IMPLEMENTATION IN THE SUDANO-SAHELIAN REGION OF THE PLAN OF ACTION TO COMBAT DESERTIFICATION 67O.fficial Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1987.

Supplement No. 3 (E/1987/25). 65 A/42/501. 66 A/42/635, A/C.2/42/L.2 and A/C.2/42/L IO.

69 UNEP /GC. 13/7 /Add.I.

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