A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/20
3 December 1993
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 175
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/48/L.22 and Add.1)]
48/20.
Emergency action to combat locust
infestation in Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling the international strategy for the fight against locust
infestation, particularly in Africa, adopted by the Economic and Social
Council in its resolution 1989/98 of 26 July 1989 and endorsed by the General
Assembly in its decision 44/438 of 19 December 1989,
Also recalling its resolution 42/169 of 11 December 1987 on the
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, which included locust
infestations among the types of natural disasters to be covered by the Decade,
Deeply concerned at the exceptional seriousness and real dangers of the
current locust infestation in Africa and concerned at its resulting economic,
social and environmental consequences, including the reduction of agricultural
output and the displacement of affected populations,
Aware that current campaigns for locust control have so far been unable
to put an end to the infestation, in particular because of the limited
financial resources of the affected countries, and convinced that the fight
against this plague, because of its recurrent nature, requires increased and
coordinated mobilization of appropriate human, scientific, technical, material
and financial resources,
Bearing in mind the recommendations of the meeting of the Ministers of
Agriculture responsible for locust control of the countries of the Maghreb and
of the Sahel, held at Algiers on 27 September 1993, 1/
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See A/48/552, annex.
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