United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters

A/RES/80/169View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 86 Protection of persons in the event of disasters, published in 2025.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	Progressive development and codification of international law	18
	Programme 23	Humanitarian assistance	25

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	Progressive development and codification of international law	18	—
	Programme 23	Humanitarian assistance	25	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2026

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2026	A/80/610	Protection of persons in the event of disasters : compilation of proposals for amendments to the draft articles on protection of persons in the event of disasters report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/80/169

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Conferences Disaster Relief Disaster Victims Humanitarian Assistance International Instruments

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Decides to convene the United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, to meet for three weeks from 25 January to 12 February 2027 in Manila, and, if necessary, for a further two weeks in August 2027, to elaborate and conclude a legally binding instrument on the protection of persons in the event of disasters, without prejudice to the legal effects of any particular provisions contained therein;

Also decides to convene a preparatory committee for the Conference, to meet from 31 August to 4 September 2026, to refer the consolidated text including the draft articles and the proposals submitted by Governments, prepared at the resumed session of the Sixth Committee held in accordance with resolution 79/128, to the Conference, to decide on the question of the participation of stakeholders other than those referred to in paragraph 9, based on a list prepared by the Secretariat, with due regard to the principles of transparency and equitable geographical representation, and whose work is relevant to the Conference, and to discuss the organization and methods of work of the Conference, including the rules of procedure, with a view to making recommendations thereon to the Conference, taking into account the importance of promoting consensus in the Preparatory Committee and on the final results of the work of the Conference, requests the Secretary-General to prepare proposals and to bring the proposals and the list referred to above to the attention of Member States well in advance for their consideration and to the Preparatory Committee, and decides that, upon completion of its mandate, the Preparatory Committee shall report directly to the Conference;

Refers the consolidated text to the Conference for its consideration, together with the commentaries to the draft articles prepared by the International Law Commission, as well as the written comments and observations of Governments, all the views expressed in the debates of the Sixth Committee on this topic, while noting the report of the working group of the Sixth Committee convened at the seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth sessions, and the recommendation of the Commission;

Decides that the rules of procedure of the General Assembly shall apply provisionally to the procedure of the Conference until otherwise agreed by the Conference;

Also decides that the Conference shall exhaust every effort in good faith to reach agreement on substantive matters by consensus;

Further decides that the Conference will be undertaken in an open and transparent manner, with a view to promoting universal adherence, and emphasizes the need to ensure the widest possible and effective participation, including, in particular, of developing countries, in the Conference;

Decides that the Conference and the Preparatory Committee shall be open to all States Members of the United Nations and members of the specialized agencies, and requests the Secretary-General to invite those States to participate in the Conference;

Also decides that the Conference and the Preparatory Committee shall be open to observers having received a standing invitation to participate in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly, on the understanding that they shall participate in the Conference and the Preparatory Committee in accordance with the rights and privileges conferred upon them by the Assembly, and requests the Secretary-General to invite them to the Conference, as well as to invite, as observers to the Conference, representatives of interested regional intergovernmental organizations and other interested international bodies;

Further decides that attendance at the Preparatory Committee and the Conference as observers will also be opened to relevant non‑governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council in accordance with the provisions of Council resolution 1996/31 of 25 July 1996, on the understanding that their participation means attending formal meetings, receiving copies of the official documents, making their materials available to delegates and addressing the meetings, through a limited number of their representatives, as appropriate;

Invites the States referred to in paragraph 7 above to include as far as possible among their representatives experts competent in the field to be considered;

Requests the Secretary-General to arrange for the attendance at the Conference, as an expert, of the Special Rapporteur of the International Law Commission on the protection of persons in the event of disasters;

Also requests the Secretary-General to appoint a Secretary-General of the Conference to serve as focal point within the Secretariat for providing support to the organization of the Conference;

Further requests the Secretary-General to provide the Conference and the Preparatory Committee with the necessary assistance for the performance of their work, including secretariat services and the provision of essential background information and relevant documents, including summary records and United Nations media coverage, and to arrange for support to be provided by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat;

Recognizes the importance of ensuring the availability of adequate resources to ensure the widest possible and effective participation in the Conference, and, accordingly, invites Member States, international financial institutions, donor agencies, intergovernmental organizations, non‑governmental organizations and natural and juridical persons to make earmarked financial contributions to the trust fund established by the Secretary-General for the Office of Legal Affairs to support the promotion of international law, and authorizes the Secretary-General to disburse funds from such contributions to that trust fund for the purposes of assisting developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, in attending the Conference, through the provision of daily subsistence allowance in addition to defraying the costs of economy-class travel, while limiting requests for assistance from the trust fund to one delegate per State for each session of the Conference;

Decides that the Sixth Committee shall resume its session from 6 to 10 April 2026, within the framework of a working group of the Committee, in accordance with resolution 79/128;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session an item entitled “United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters”.

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