A/RES/68/99
United Nations
Distr.: General
7 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 70 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.21 and Add.1)]
68/99. Strengthening of international cooperation and
coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize
the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 45/190 of 21 December 1990, 46/150 of 18 December
1991, 47/165 of 18 December 1992, 48/206 of 21 December 1993, 50/134 of
20 December 1995, 52/172 of 16 December 1997, 54/97 of 8 December 1999,
56/109 of 14 December 2001, 58/119 of 17 December 2003, 60/14 of 14 November
2005, 62/9 of 20 November 2007 and 65/131 of 15 December 2010, as well as its
resolution 55/171 of 14 December 2000 on closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant, and taking note of the decisions adopted by the organs, organizations and
programmes of the United Nations system in the implementation of those
resolutions,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolutions 1990/50 of 13 July 1990,
1991/51 of 26 July 1991 and 1992/38 of 30 July 1992 and Council decision
1993/232 of 22 July 1993,
Conscious of the long-term nature of the consequences of the disaster at the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was a major technological catastrophe in
terms of its scope and complexity and created humanitarian, environmental, social,
economic and health consequences and problems of common concern, requiring for
their solution wide and active international cooperation and coordination of efforts
in this field at the international and national levels,
Expressing profound concern at the ongoing effects of the consequences of the
accident on the lives and health of people, in particular children, in the affected
areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well as in other affected
countries,
Noting the consensus reached among members of the Chernobyl Forum on the
environmental, health and socioeconomic effects of the Chernobyl disaster, in
particular in providing a message of reassurance and practical advice to
communities living in territories affected by the Chernobyl disaster,
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