A/RES/67/204
United Nations
Distr.: General
27 February 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 20 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2012
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/67/437/Add.1)]
67/204. Implementation of the International Year of Water
Cooperation, 2013
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 47/193 of 22 December 1992 on the observance of
World Day for Water, 55/196 of 20 December 2000, by which it proclaimed 2003
the International Year of Freshwater, 58/217 of 23 December 2003, by which it
proclaimed the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, to
commence on World Water Day, 22 March 2005, 59/228 of 22 December 2004,
61/192 of 20 December 2006, by which it proclaimed 2008 the International Year of
Sanitation, 64/198 of 21 December 2009 on the midterm comprehensive review of
the implementation of the Decade and 65/154 of 20 December 2010, by which it
proclaimed 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation,
Recalling also its resolution 64/292 of 28 July 2010 on the human right to
water and sanitation,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 15/9 of 30 September
2010 1 and 21/2 of 27 September 2012, 2
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July 1980 on
international years and anniversaries, the annex to which includes agreed guidelines
and criteria for the proclamation of international years, and General Assembly
resolutions 53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006 on the
proclamation of international years,
Recalling also the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 3 and all
its principles, Agenda 21, 4 the Programme for the Further Implementation of
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/65/53/Add.1),
chap. II.
2
Ibid., Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/67/53/Add.1), chap. III.
3
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.
4
Ibid., annex II.
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