A/RES/60/191
United Nations
Distr.: General
20 February 2006
General Assembly
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 52
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/488)]
60/191. International Year of the Potato, 2008
The General Assembly,
Noting that the potato is a staple food in the diet of the world’s population,
Recalling resolution 4/2005 of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, adopted on 25 November 2005, 1
Affirming the need to focus world attention on the role that the potato can play in
providing food security and eradicating poverty in support of achievement of the
internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals,
1.
Decides to declare 2008 the International Year of the Potato;
2.
Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
facilitate the implementation of the International Year of the Potato, in collaboration with
Governments, the United Nations Development Programme, Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research centres and other relevant organizations of the United
Nations system, as well as relevant non-governmental organizations.
68th plenary meeting
22 December 2005
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1
See Report of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Thirtythird Session, Rome, 19–26 November 2005 (C 2005/REP).
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