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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/24
19 November 1998
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 12
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.24)]
53/24. International Year of Mountains, 2002
The General Assembly,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1998/30 of 29 July 1998,1
Recalling also the relevant provisions of Agenda 21 on sustainable mountain development,2
Noting the work already undertaken to achieve sustainable mountain development by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and particularly its role as task manager for chapter 13
of Agenda 21,
1.
Proclaims the year 2002 as the International Year of Mountains;
2. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to serve as the lead agency
for the International Year of Mountains, in collaboration with Governments, the United Nations
Environment Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant organizations of the United Nations system and
non-governmental organizations;
1
Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 1 (E/1998/98).
2
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June
1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the
Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
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