A/RES/69/266
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 March 2015
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 9
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 26 February 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.53 and Add.1)]
69/266. A global geodetic reference frame for sustainable
development
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming also its resolution 54/68 of 6 December 1999, in which it
endorsed the resolution entitled “The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on
Space and Human Development”, 1 which included, inter alia, key actions to
improve the efficiency and security of transport, search and rescue, geodesy and
other activities by promoting the enhancement of, universal access to and
compatibility of space-based navigation and positioning systems, including Global
Navigation Satellite systems,
Reaffirming further its resolution 57/253 of 20 December 2002, in which it
endorsed the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation), 2 and means of
implementation, which included, inter alia, strengthening cooperation and
coordination among global observing systems and research programmes for
integrated global observations, taking into account the need for building capacity
and sharing of data from ground-based observations, satellite remote sensing and
other sources among all countries,
Reaffirming its resolution 66/288 of 27 July 2012, in which it endorsed the
outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,
entitled “The future we want”, in which Heads of State and Government recognized
the importance of space-technology-based data, in situ monitoring and reliable
geospatial information for sustainable development policymaking, programming and
project operations,
Noting Economic and Social Council resolution 2011/24 of 27 July 2011, by
which the Council established the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial
Information Management, encouraged Member States to hold regular high-level,
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1
Adopted by the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
(UNISPACE III), held in Vienna from 19 to 30 July 1999 (A/CONF.184/6, chap. I, resolution 1).
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).
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