United Nations
A/RES/68/205
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 19
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2013
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/68/438)]
68/205. World Wildlife Day
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of
20 December 2006 on the proclamation of international years, and Economic and
Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on international years and
anniversaries, particularly paragraphs 1 to 10 of the annex thereto, under the section
“Criteria for the proclamation of international years”, as well as paragraphs 13 and
14 under section II of the annex, which stipulate that a year should not be
proclaimed before the basic arrangements for its organization and financing have
been made,
Reaffirming also the intrinsic value of wildlife and its various contributions,
including its ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural,
recreational and aesthetic contributions to sustainable development and human
well-being,
Recalling the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1 Agenda 21, 2
the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, 3 the Johannesburg
Declaration on Sustainable Development, 4 the Plan of Implementation of the World
Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg Plan of Implementation) 5 and
the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled
“The future we want”, 6
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1
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June
1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and
corrigendum), resolution 1, annex I.
2
Ibid., annex II.
3
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
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 1,
annex.
5
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
6
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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