Activities undertaken in preparation for the International Year of Freshwater, 2003 (2003), para. 05
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Recalling the commitment made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development to launch programmes of action, with financial and technical assistance, to achieve the Millennium development goal on safe drinking water, namely, to halve by 2015 the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water, as outlined in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 5 and the goal of the Summit to halve the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation, 6 Recalling also its resolution 53/199 of 15 December 1998 on the proclamation of international years,