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UNITED
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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/53/187
12 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 94
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/53/609/Add.6)]
53/187. Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations
Environment Programme
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, by which it decided to establish the
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme,
Also recalling the results and decisions of the nineteenth special session of the General Assembly,
convened for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21,1 and,
in particular, paragraphs 119 and 122 to 124 of the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda
21,2
Further recalling the Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of the United Nations
Environment Programme,3 adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment
Programme at its nineteenth session,
1
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.
2
Resolution S–19/2, annex.
3
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/52/25), annex,
decision 19/1, annex.
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