International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013

A/RES/65/154View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 20a Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, published in 2011.

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015;¹⁰

¹⁰A/65/297.

Decides to declare 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation;

Invites the Secretary-General, in cooperation with UN-Water, and mindful of the provisions of the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67, to take appropriate steps to organize the activities of the Year and to develop necessary proposals on activities at all levels to support Member States in the implementation of the Year;

Encourages all Member States, the United Nations system and all other actors to take advantage of the Year to promote actions at all levels, including through international cooperation, as appropriate, aimed at the achievement of the internationally agreed water-related goals contained in Agenda 21,Error: Reference source not found the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21,Error: Reference source not found the United Nations Millennium DeclarationError: Reference source not found and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation,Error: Reference source not found as well as to increase awareness of their importance;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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