United Nations
A/RES/61/132
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 March 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 69 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 2006
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.44 and Add.1)]
61/132. Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation,
reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the
Indian Ocean tsunami disaster
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/182 of 19 December 1991, 57/152 of 16 December
2002, 57/256 of 20 December 2002, 58/25 of 5 December 2003, 58/214 and 58/215
of 23 December 2003, 59/212 of 20 December 2004, 59/231 and 59/233 of
22 December 2004, 59/279 of 19 January 2005 and 60/15 of 14 November 2005,
Noting the Declaration on Action to Strengthen Emergency Relief,
Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Prevention in the Aftermath of the Earthquake
and Tsunami Disaster of 26 December 2004, adopted at the special meeting of
leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, held in Jakarta on 6 January
2005, 1
Recalling the Hyogo Declaration 2 and the Hyogo Framework for Action
2005–2015, 3 as well as the common statement of the special session on the Indian
Ocean disaster, 4 adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 5
Taking note with appreciation of the convening of the Global Consortium for
Tsunami-Affected Countries by the Office of the United Nations Special Envoy for
Tsunami Recovery in April 2006, which brought together national Governments,
United Nations agencies, other intergovernmental organizations, the international
financial institutions, consortia of non-governmental organizations and donor
Governments with the aim of identifying common priorities and implementing
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1
A/59/669, annex.
A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 1.
3
Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to
Disasters (A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 2).
4
Common statement of the special session on the Indian Ocean disaster: risk reduction for a safer future
(A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, annex II).
5
A/61/87-E/2006/77.
2
06-50235