A/RES/60/124
United Nations
Distr.: General
8 March 2006
General Assembly
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 73 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 15 December 2005
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.38 and Add.1)]
60/124. Strengthening of the coordination of emergency
humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991 and the guiding
principles contained in the annex thereto, and recalling other relevant General
Assembly and Economic and Social Council resolutions and agreed conclusions of
the Council,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the strengthening of the
coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations, 1
Also taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the improvement of
the Central Emergency Revolving Fund, 2
Reaffirming the principles of neutrality, humanity,
independence for the provision of humanitarian assistance,
impartiality
and
Reiterating that independence means the autonomy of humanitarian objectives
from the political, economic, military or other objectives that any actor may hold
with regard to areas where humanitarian action is being implemented,
Expressing deep concern at the number and scale of natural disasters and their
increasing impact within recent years, and reaffirming the need for sustainable
measures at all levels to reduce the vulnerability of societies to natural hazards,
using an integrated, multi-hazard and participatory approach to addressing
vulnerability, risk assessment, and disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness,
response and recovery,
Reaffirming, in this regard, the Hyogo Declaration 3 and the Hyogo Framework
for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to
Disasters, 4 as adopted by the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005,
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1
A/60/87-E/2005/78.
A/60/432.
3
A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 1.
4
Ibid., resolution 2.
2
05-49504