Question of Antarctica

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 62 Question of Antarctica, published in 1997.

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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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5 subjects

Antarctica Conferences Environmental Protection Scientific Research Treaties

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7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the question of Antarctica⁴and the role accorded by the Secretary-General to the United Nations Environment Programme in preparing his report, and also of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, which took place at Seoul from 8 to 19 May 1995 and at Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 29 April to 10 May 1996, respectively;

⁴A/51/390.

Recalls the statement under chapter 17 of Agenda 21,⁵adopted 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, continue:

⁵See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions Adopted by the Conference, resolution I, annex II, chap. 17, para. 17.105.

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

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

Welcomes the invitations to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to attend Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings in order to assist such meetings in their substantive work, and urges the parties to continue to extend such invitations for future consultative meetings;

Welcomes also 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, and encourages the Parties to continue to provide the Secretary-General and other interested States with information on developments in relation to Antarctica, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a report which shall consist of that information to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;

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

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