United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/55/205
Distr.: General
15 February 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 95 (f)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/582/Add.6)]
55/205. World Solar Programme 1996–2005
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 53/7 of 16 October 1998 and 54/215 of 22 December
1999 on the World Solar Programme 1996–2005,
Recalling also resolution 14 concerning the World Solar Programme 1996–
2005, adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization at its twenty-ninth session in November 1997,1
Reaffirming that the convening at Harare on 16 and 17 September 1996 of the
World Solar Summit, at which the Harare Declaration on Solar Energy and
Sustainable Development 2 was adopted and preparation of the World Solar
Programme 1996–2005 3 approved, was a step in pursuance of the implementation of
Agenda 21, 4 which is a multifaceted and, at the same time, fundamental programme
of action for achieving sustainable development,
Recalling resolution 19 adopted by the General Conference of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its thirtieth session in
November 1999, 5 concerning the Global Renewable Energy Education and Training
Programme 1996–2005, which constitutes one of the major programmes of universal
value of the World Solar Programme 1996–2005,
Reiterating that mutually supportive efforts at the national and international
levels are imperative in the pursuit of sustainable development, which includes the
provision of financial resources and the transfer of technology for the application of
cost-effective energy and the wider use of environment-friendly, renewable energies,
1
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Twenty-ninth Session, Paris, 21 October–12 November 1997, vol. 1: Resolutions.
2
A/53/395, annex, sect. II.
3
Ibid., annex, sect. V.D.
4
Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3 –14 June
1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the
Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
5
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirtieth Session, Paris, 26 October–17 November 1999, vol. 1: Resolutions.
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