A/RES/64/198
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 February 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 53 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2009
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/64/420/Add.1)]
64/198. Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of
the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”,
2005–2015
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 55/196 of 20 December 2000, by which it proclaimed
2003 the International Year of Freshwater, its resolution 58/217 of 23 December
2003, by which it proclaimed that the International Decade for Action, “Water for
Life”, 2005–2015, would commence on World Water Day, 22 March 2005, and its
resolution 59/228 of 22 December 2004,
Emphasizing that water is critical for sustainable development, including
environmental integrity and the eradication of poverty and hunger, and is indispensable
for human health and well-being,
Recalling the provisions of Agenda 21, 1 the Programme for the Further
Implementation of Agenda 21 adopted at its nineteenth special session, 2 the Plan of
Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation”) 3 and the decisions of the Economic and Social Council
and of the Commission on Sustainable Development at its sixth session 4 relating to
freshwater,
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Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goals on water and
sanitation, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 5
and determined to achieve the goal to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people who
are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water, and the goals set out in the
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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 II.
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Resolution S-19/2, annex.
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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
2, annex.
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 9 (E/1998/29).
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See resolution 55/2.
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