United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/209 Distr.: General 13 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 94 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/484/Add.8)] 58/209. Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-second session The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, by which it established the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, Recalling also its resolutions 53/242 of 28 July 1999, 56/193 of 21 December 2001 and 57/251 of 20 December 2002 on the report of the Governing Council, Taking note of the report of the Governing Council on its seventh special session, 1 Reaffirming the role of the United Nations Environment Programme as the principal body within the United Nations system in the field of environment, which should take into account, within its mandate, the sustainable development needs of developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition, Taking into account the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 2 Recalling the need to enhance the provisions of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation concerning support for capacity-building in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, Takes note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations 1. Environment Programme on its twenty-second session 3 and the decisions contained therein; 2. Emphasizes the need for the United Nations Environment Programme, within its mandate, to further contribute to sustainable development programmes, _______________ 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/57/25). 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. 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/58/25). 2 03 50706