United Nations
A/RES/57/162
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 January 2003
Fifty-seventh session
Agenda item 168
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.58/Rev.1 and Add.1)]
57/162. International Year of Rice, 2004
The General Assembly,
Recalling resolution 2/2001 of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, 1
Noting that rice is the staple food of more than half of the world’s population,
Affirming the need to heighten awareness of the role of rice in alleviating
poverty and malnutrition,
Reaffirming the need to focus world attention on the role that rice can play in
providing food security and eradicating poverty in the attainment of the
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, 2
1.
Decides to declare the year 2004 the International Year of Rice;
2.
Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
facilitate the implementation of the International Year of Rice, in collaboration with
Governments, the United Nations Development Programme, Consultative Group on
International Agricultural Research centres and other relevant organizations of the
United Nations system and non-governmental organizations.
76th plenary meeting
16 December 2002
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1
See Report of the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Thirtyfirst Session, Rome, 2–13 November 2001 (C 2001/REP).
2
See resolution 55/2.
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