United Nations A/RES/55/200 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)] 55/200. Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its sixth special session The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, by which it decided to establish the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, Recalling also its resolutions 54/216 of 22 December 1999 on the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twentieth session and 53/242 of 28 July 1999 on the report of the Secretary-General on environment and human settlements, Recalling further the Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of the United Nations Environment Programme, adopted by the Governing Council of the Programme at its nineteenth session, 1 Underlining the fact that the forthcoming ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development will provide the international community with a unique opportunity to take action to implement its commitments and to strengthen the international cooperation urgently required to address the challenges of sustainable development in the twenty-first century, Reaffirming the role of the United Nations Environment Programme in the preparations for the ten-year review of progress achieved in the implementation of the outcome of the Conference, as reflected in the decisions taken by the Commission on Sustainable Development at its eighth session, 2 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its sixth special session, 3 takes note of the decisions contained therein as well as the consultations among member States in preparation for the twenty-first session, and, in this regard, also takes note of the 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/52/25), annex, decision 19/1, annex. 2 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 9 (E/2000/29). 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/55/25). 00 61006