A United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82g Long-term strategy for sustainable and environmentally sound development, published in 1989.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Development Environment Financing Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Decides to consider at its forty-fourth session the question of the convening of a United Nations conference on the subject of the present resolution no later than 1992, with a view to taking an appropriate decision at that session on the exact scope, title, venue and date ofsuch a conference and on the modalities and financial implications of holding the conference;

Requests the Secretary-General, with the assistance 2. of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, urgently to obtain the views of Governments on:

The objectives, content, title and scope of the conference;

Appropriate ways of preparing for the conference;

A suitable time and place and other modalities for (c) the conference; and to submit those views to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, and to make them available to the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its fifteenth session;

Also requests the Secretary-General, with the as- 3. sistance of the Executive Director, to obtain the views of appropriate organs, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on the objectives, content and scope of the conference, and to submit those views to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, and to make them available to the Governing Council at its fifteenth session;

Further requests the Secretary-General, with the assistance of the Executive Director, to prepare a statement of the financial implications of preparing and convening the conference, and to submit that statement to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, and to make it available to the Governing Council at its fifteenth session;

Invites the Governing Council to consider the docu- 5. ments referred to in paragraphs 2 to 4 above and, on the basis of that consideration, to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, through the Economic and Social Council, its views on the matters referred to in the present resolution, in particular its views on the objectives, content and scope of the conference.

,x Resolution 40/205. annex

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