Cooperative measures to assess and increase awareness
of environmental effects related to waste originating
from chemical munitions dumped at sea
A/RES/74/213
Taking note of the outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992, 2 and the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation), adopted in Johannesburg, South Africa, in September 2002, 3
and reaffirming the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, entitled “The future we want”, adopted in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, in June 2012, 4
Recognizing the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity 5 and its
programme of work to reduce marine and coastal biological loss, as well as other
multilateral environmental agreements and regional seas conventions to address
marine pollution and their contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development,
Recalling the political declaration of the high-level political forum on
sustainable development convened under the auspices of the General Assembly on
24 and 25 September 2019, 6 in which Member States confirm that they remain
resolved to ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources and
commit to reducing disaster risk and building resilience,
Recalling also its resolution 73/254 of 20 December 2018, in which it promotes
global partnerships that are critical to the achievement of the Sustainable
Development Goals, as well as a principle-based approach to enhanced cooperation
between the United Nations and all relevant partners,
Recalling further the efforts to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas
and marine resources for sustainable development, including preventing and
significantly reducing, by 2025, marine pollution of all kinds, 7
Recalling its resolution 71/312 of 6 July 2017, entitled “Our ocean, our future:
call for action”, and looking forward to the 2020 United Nations Conference to
Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and
sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development,
Recalling also its resolution 72/73 of 5 December 2017, in which it proclaimed
the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development,
Reaffirming the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 8 which
provides the legal framework for ocean activities, and emphasizing its fundamental
character, conscious that the problems of ocean space are closely interrelated and need
to be considered as a whole through an integrated, interdisciplinary and inter sectoral
approach,
Noting the importance of cooperation on chemical munitions dumped at sea as
an effort that contributes to the improvement of the overall marine environment,
Recalling relevant international and regional instruments such as the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
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See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janei ro,
3–14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1.
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.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1760, No. 30619.
Resolution 74/4, annex.
See resolution 70/1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
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