United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/57/252
Distr.: General
21 February 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 87
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/57/532/Add.7)]
57/252. Activities undertaken in preparation for the International
Year of Freshwater, 2003
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 55/196 of 20 December 2000, in which it proclaimed
2003 the International Year of Freshwater, and its resolution 56/192 of 21 December
2001 on the status of preparations for the International Year of Freshwater, 2003,
Recalling also the provisions of Agenda 21, 1 the Programme for the Further
Implementation of Agenda 21, adopted by the General Assembly at its nineteenth
special session, 2 decisions of the Commission on Sustainable Development at its
sixth session, 3 relating to freshwater, and those contained in the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation”), 4
Noting with interest the partnership initiatives voluntarily undertaken by some
Governments, international organizations and major groups and announced at the
Summit,
Recalling the commitment made at the World Summit on Sustainable
Development to launch programmes of action, with financial and technical
assistance, to achieve the Millennium development goal on safe drinking water,
namely, to halve by 2015 the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to
afford safe drinking water, as outlined in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 5 and the goal of the Summit to halve the proportion of people without
access to basic sanitation, 6
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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
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 9 (E/1998/29).
4
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.
5
See resolution 55/2, para. 19.
6
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, para. 25.
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