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activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and
technical cooperation for development;
2.
Recognizes the value of domestic and regional actions aimed at making
pre-identified, standby and trained national volunteer corps such as the White
Helmets available to the United Nations system, through the United Nations
Volunteers and other agencies, and in accordance with accepted United Nations
procedures and practices, in order to provide specialized human and technical
resources for emergency relief and rehabilitation;
Expresses its satisfaction for the progress of the White Helmets initiative
3.
as a singular voluntary international effort to provide the United Nations system
with voluntary expertise to respond, in a quick and coordinated manner, to United
Nations appeals concerning humanitarian relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and
development, while preserving the non-political, neutral and impartial character of
humanitarian action;
Encourages Member States to identify their respective national focal
4.
points for the White Helmets in order to continue to provide the United Nations
system with an accessible global network of rapid response facilities in case of
humanitarian emergencies;
Recognizes with appreciation the progress made by the States members
5.
of the Common Market of the South and its associated partners in strengthening and
broadening the regional role of the White Helmets initiative, and encourages
Member States in other regional associations to make similar joint efforts;
Encourages operational partners of the United Nations system, in
6.
particular United Nations Volunteers and the United Nations Development
Programme, to draw upon the voluntary expertise of the White Helmets, as
appropriate, including in their response to chronic situations characterized by
hunger, malnutrition and poverty;
Recognizes that the White Helmets initiative can play an important role
7.
in the promotion, diffusion and fulfilment of the decisions achieved in the United
Nations Millennium Declaration,1 and invites Member States in a position to do so
to consider means to ensure the integration of the White Helmets initiative into their
programme activities and to make the commensurate financial resources available
through the special financing window of the Special Voluntary Fund of the United
Nations Volunteers, or in coordination with it;
Invites the Secretary-General, on the basis of the experience acquired, to
8.
consider further the potential use of White Helmets as a resource for preventing and
mitigating the effects of post-conflict humanitarian emergencies and, in this context,
to maintain adequate support for the White Helmets liaison functions, taking into
account the ongoing reforms process;
Requests the Secretary-General to take into consideration the ten years
9.
that will have passed since the adoption of its resolution 49/139 B, the first
resolution on the White Helmets initiative, and, in view of the success of
coordinated actions carried out since then with, inter alia, the United Nations
Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat, the United Nations Development
Programme and the United Nations Volunteers, to consider their impact and to
analyse possible steps and modalities to enhance the integration of the White
Helmets initiative within the work of the United Nations system, suggesting
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