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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/184
3 February 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 97 (e)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/605/Add.5)]
51/184.
Protection of global climate for present
and future generations of mankind
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 45/212 of 21 December 1990, 46/169 of 19
December 1991, 47/195 of 22 December 1992, 48/189 of 21 December 1993, 49/120
of 19 December 1994 and 50/115 of 20 December 1995,
Noting with satisfaction that most States and one regional economic
integration organization have ratified or acceded to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change,1 and inviting States that are not
parties to take appropriate action to that end,
Welcoming the achievements of the second session of the Conference of
the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held
at Geneva from 8 to 19 July 1996, and noting that the Conference of the
Parties at its second session adopted by consensus a series of substantive
decisions,2
Recalling that at its second session the Conference of the Parties took
note, without formal adoption, of the Geneva Ministerial Declaration3 which
received majority support among ministers and other heads of delegations
attending the Conference, which, inter alia, called for acceleration of
negotiations on the text of a legally binding protocol or another legal
1
A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex I.
2
See FCCC/CP/1996/15/Add.1.
3
Ibid., annex.
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