A/RES/68/118
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 December 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 87
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2013
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/68/470)]
68/118. The law of transboundary aquifers
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 63/124 of 11 December 2008 and 66/104 of
9 December 2011,
Noting
aquifers in
management
international
the major importance of the subject of the law of transboundary
the relations of States and the need for reasonable and proper
of transboundary aquifers, a vitally important natural resource, through
cooperation for present and future generations,
Noting also that the provisions of the draft articles on the law of transboundary
aquifers have been taken into account in relevant instruments such as the Guarani
Aquifer Agreement signed by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay on 2 August
2010, and the Model Provisions on Transboundary Groundwaters adopted by the
sixth Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection and Use of
Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes on 29 November 2012,
Emphasizing the continuing importance of the codification and progressive
development of international law, as referred to in Article 13, paragraph 1 (a), of the
Charter of the United Nations,
Noting the comments of Governments and the discussion held in the Sixth
Committee at the sixty-third, sixty-sixth and sixty-eighth sessions of the General
Assembly on this topic,
1.
Commends to the attention of Governments the draft articles on the law
of transboundary aquifers annexed to the present resolution as guidance for bilateral
or regional agreements and arrangements for the proper management of
transboundary aquifers;
2.
Encourages the International Hydrological Programme of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to continue its contribution
by offering further scientific and technical assistance to the States concerned;
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