Question of Antarctica

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 Question of Antarctica, published in 1999.

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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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2002

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2002	A/57/346	Question of Antarctica report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/54/45

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Antarctica Conferences Environmental Protection Information Exchange Scientific Research

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the question of Antarctica⁴ and the role accorded by the Secretary-General to the United Nations Environment Programme in preparing his report and also of the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, which were held at Christchurch, New Zealand, from 19 to 30 May 1997, at Tromso, Norway, from 25 May to 5 June 1998, and at Lima, from 24 May to 4 June 1999, respectively;

⁴A/54/339.

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

⁵See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions Adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, 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 do so 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 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-seventh session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Question of Antarctica”.

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