Question of Antarctica

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 67 Question of Antarctica, published in 1995.

What else is in this group?

32 documents · 1984–2006

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2006).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2006	A/RES/60/47	Question of Antarctica	657	–
2002	A/RES/57/51	Question of Antarctica	668	–
1999	A/RES/54/45	Question of Antarctica	662	–
1997	A/RES/51/56	Question of Antarctica	628	–
1995	A/RES/49/80	Question of Antarctica	825	–

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What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Antarctica Conferences Ecosystems Environmental Protection Information Dissemination Information Exchange Participants Scientific and Technical Information Scientific Research Treaties

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on Antarctica and on the report of the Eighteenth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, 1/ held at Kyoto, Japan, from 11 to 22 April 1994;

Welcomes the practice whereby the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties regularly provide the Secretary-General with information on their consultative meetings and on their activities in Antarctica, encourages the Parties to continue to provide to the Secretary-General and other interested States information on developments in relation to Antarctica, and requests the Secretary-General to submit that information in a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;

Notes the role accorded by the Secretary-General to the United Nations Environment Programme in relation to Antarctic matters;

Urges the Antarctic Treaty Parties to extend invitations to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to attend future consultative meetings in order to assist them in the substantive work;

Welcomes the statement under chapter 17 of Agenda 21, 3/ adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, that States carrying out research activities in Antarctica should, as provided for in article III of the Antarctic Treaty, 2/ continue to:

Ensure that data and information resulting from such research are freely available to the international community;

Enhance access of the international scientific community and specialized agencies of the United Nations to such data and information, including the encouragement of periodic seminars and symposia;

Urges the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties to take into account in their deliberations the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, particularly as noted in paragraph 5 above;

Requests the Antarctic Treaty Parties to continue to make available information on Antarctica as a means of promoting further public awareness of the importance of Antarctica to the global and regional environment;

Urges the Antarctic Treaty Parties to consider becoming parties as soon as possible to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, and so bring the Protocol into force, in order to ensure the implementation of strengthened measures for the protection of the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems;

Urges countries whose nationals undertake activities in Antarctica to ensure that all such activities are carried out in a manner consistent with the principles of the Protocol;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "Question of Antarctica".

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