A/RES/65/154
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 February 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 20 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2010
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/65/436/Add.1)]
65/154. International Year of Water Cooperation, 2013
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 47/193 of 22 December 1992 on the observance of
World Day for Water, 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 the International Decade for Action,
“Water for Life”, 2005–2015, to commence on World Water Day, 22 March 2005, its
resolution 59/228 of 22 December 2004, its resolution 61/192 of 20 December 2006,
by which it proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Sanitation, and its resolution
64/198 of 21 December 2009 on the midterm comprehensive review of the
implementation of the Decade,
Recalling also Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/67 of 25 July
1980 on international years and anniversaries and General Assembly resolutions
53/199 of 15 December 1998 and 61/185 of 20 December 2006 on the proclamation
of international years,
Recalling further the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1 and
all its principles, Agenda 21, 2 the Programme for the Further Implementation of
Agenda 21, 3 the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, 4 the Plan
of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) 5 and the outcome document of the Highlevel Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development
Goals 6 and the commitments made therein,
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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 I.
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Ibid., annex II.
3
Resolution S-19/2, annex.
4
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 1, annex.
5
Ibid., resolution 2, annex.
6
See resolution 65/1.
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