United Nations
A/RES/55/199
General Assembly
Distr.: General
5 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 95 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/582/Add.1)]
55/199. Ten-year review of progress achieved in the
implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
held at Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992, and the nineteenth special session of
the General Assembly for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the
implementation of Agenda 21, held in New York from 23 to 28 June 1997,
Recalling also that Agenda 21 1 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and
Development 2 should constitute the framework within which the other results of the
Conference are reviewed, and from within which new challenges and opportunities
that have emerged since the Conference are addressed,
Recalling further its resolutions 53/188 of 15 December 1998 and 54/218 of
22 December 1999 on the implementation of and follow-up to the outcome of the
Conference and the special session, as well as its resolution 55/2 of 8 September
2000,
Recalling Commission on Sustainable Development decision 8/1 on
preparations for the ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of
the outcome of the Conference, 3
Recalling also that chapter 33 of Agenda 21 identified the Global Environment
Facility as one source of financing for the implementation of Agenda 21,
Recalling further the importance for developing countries of chapter 34 of
Agenda 21,
Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on
ensuring effective preparations for the ten-year review of progress achieved in the
1
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June
1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the
Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
2
Ibid., annex I.
3
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 9 (E/2000/29), chap. I,
sect. B.
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