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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/219
3 February 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 100 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/54/588/Add.2)]
54/219. International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction: successor
arrangements
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 44/236 of 22 December 1989, 49/22 A of 2 December 1994, 49/22 B of
20 December 1994 and 53/185 of 15 December 1998, and taking note of Economic and Social Council
resolution 1999/63 of 30 July 1999 on the successor arrangements for the International Decade for Natural
Disaster Reduction,
Recalling also the results of the programme forum on the International Decade, held at Geneva from
5 to 9 July 1999, and the Geneva mandate on disaster reduction adopted by the forum, together with the
strategy document entitled “A safer world in the twenty-first century: risk and disaster reduction”,
Recalling further the forward-looking platform for international concerted disaster reduction as
developed by the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction and as expressed in the Yokohama
Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and its
Plan of Action,1
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A/CONF.172/9, resolution 1, annex I.
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