A/RES/62/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
18 December 2007
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 71 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 November 2007
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/62/L.12 and Add.1)]
62/9. Strengthening of international cooperation and
coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize
the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 45/190 of 21 December 1990, 46/150 of
18 December 1991, 47/165 of 18 December 1992, 48/206 of 21 December 1993,
50/134 of 20 December 1995, 52/172 of 16 December 1997, 54/97 of 8 December
1999, 56/109 of 14 December 2001, 58/119 of 17 December 2003 and 60/14 of
14 November 2005, as well as its resolution 55/171 of 14 December 2000 on closure
of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and taking note of the decisions adopted by
the organs, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system in the
implementation of those resolutions,
Recalling Economic and Social Council resolutions 1990/50 of 13 July 1990,
1991/51 of 26 July 1991 and 1992/38 of 30 July 1992 and Council decision
1993/232 of 22 July 1993,
Conscious of the long-term nature of the consequences of the disaster at the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was a major technological catastrophe in
terms of its scope and complexity and created humanitarian, environmental, social,
economic and health consequences and problems of common concern, requiring for
their solution wide and active international cooperation and coordination of efforts
in this field at the international and national levels,
Expressing profound concern at the ongoing effects of the consequences of the
accident on the lives and health of people, in particular children, in the affected
areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well as in other affected
countries,
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