United Nations A/RES/55/198 General Assembly Distr.: General 1 February 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 95 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/582/Add.8)] 55/198. Enhancing complementarities among international instruments related to environment and sustainable development The General Assembly, Recalling Agenda 21 1 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21adopted at its nineteenth special session, 2 and its resolutions 53/186 of 15 December 1998, 53/242 of 28 July 1999 and 54/217 of 22 December 1999, Reaffirming the need, as stipulated in the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, for greater coherence in various intergovernmental organizations and processes by means of better policy coordination at the intergovernmental level, as well as for continued and more concerted efforts to enhance collaboration among the secretariats of relevant decision-making bodies, within their respective mandates, Emphasizing the need for the conferences of the parties and the secretariats of the environmental conventions to continue to pursue sustainable development objectives that are consistent with those conventions and with Agenda 21, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on international institutional arrangements related to environment and sustainable development; 3 2. Welcomes the work undertaken by the secretariats of the instruments related to environment and sustainable development and other relevant organizations to implement resolution 54/217; 3. Encourages the conferences of the parties to, and the secretariats of, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 4 the Convention on 1 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. 2 Resolution S-19/2, annex. 3 A/55/357. 4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1771, No. 30822. 00 57109