A/RES/64/205
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 53 (h)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/420/Add.8)]
64/205. Sustainable mountain development
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/24 of 10 November 1998, by which it proclaimed
2002 the International Year of Mountains,
Recalling also its resolutions 55/189 of 20 December 2000, 57/245 of
20 December 2002, 58/216 of 23 December 2003, 59/238 of 22 December 2004,
60/198 of 22 December 2005 and 62/196 of 19 December 2007,
Reaffirming chapter 13 of Agenda 21 1 and all relevant paragraphs of the Plan
of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation”), 2 in particular paragraph 42 thereof, as the overall policy
frameworks for sustainable development in mountain regions,
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Noting the Bishkek Mountain Platform, 3 the outcome document of the Bishkek
Global Mountain Summit, held in Bishkek from 28 October to 1 November 2002,
which was the concluding event of the International Year of Mountains,
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Noting also the International Partnership for Sustainable Development in
Mountain Regions (“Mountain Partnership”), launched during the World Summit on
Sustainable Development, with benefits from the committed support of fifty
countries, sixteen intergovernmental organizations and ninety-six organizations
from major groups, as an important multi-stakeholder approach to addressing the
various interrelated dimensions of sustainable development in mountain regions,
Noting further the conclusions of the global meetings of the members of the
Mountain Partnership, held, respectively, in Merano, Italy, in October 2003 and in
Cusco, Peru, in October 2004, and the first Andean Meeting of the Andean
Initiative, held in San Miguel Tucuman, Argentina, in September 2007,
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1
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II.
2
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–4 September
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex.
3
A/C.2/57/7, annex.
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