United Nations
A/RES/65/264
Distr.: General
21 June 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 69 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 28 January 2011
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/65/L.59 and Add.1)]
65/264. International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in
the field of natural disasters, from relief to development
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991, the annex to which
contains the guiding principles for the strengthening of the coordination of
emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations system, as well as all its
resolutions on international cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of
natural disasters, from relief to development, and recalling the resolutions of the
humanitarian segments of the substantive sessions of the Economic and Social
Council,
Reaffirming also the principles of neutrality, humanity, impartiality and
independence for the provision of humanitarian assistance,
Reaffirming further the Hyogo Declaration, 1 the Hyogo Framework for Action
2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters 2 and
the common statement of the special session on the Indian Ocean disaster: risk
reduction for a safer future, 3 as adopted by the World Conference on Disaster
Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005,
Looking forward to the third session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk
Reduction, to be held in Geneva from 8 to 13 May 2011, the report of the
forthcoming Hyogo Framework for Action midterm review and the Global
Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, due in 2011,
Emphasizing that the affected State has the primary responsibility in the
initiation, organization, coordination and implementation of humanitarian assistance
within its territory and in the facilitation of the work of humanitarian organizations
in mitigating the consequences of natural disasters,
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1
A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 1.
Ibid., resolution 2.
3
A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, annex II.
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