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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/113
17 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 89
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/49/729/Add.6)]
49/113.
Dissemination of the principles of the Rio
Declaration on Environment and Development
The General Assembly,
Reiterating that the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1/
contains fundamental principles for the achievement of sustainable
development, based on a new and equitable global partnership, and reaffirming
Agenda 21, 2/
Conscious of the fact that dissemination of the principles contained in
the Declaration will contribute to increasing public awareness of the need to
take a balanced and integrated approach to development and environment
questions,
Aware of the fact that dissemination of the principles contained in the
Declaration can stimulate increased national and international efforts to
promote sustainable and environmentally sound development in all countries,
Taking into account its resolution 47/191 of 22 December 1992, in
particular its paragraph 4 (a), in which it recommended that the Commission on
Sustainable Development promote the incorporation of the principles of the
1/
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, Rio do Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and
Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions Adopted by
the Conference, resolution 1, annex I.
2/
95-76849
Ibid., annex II.
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