A/RES/68/103
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 70 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.27 and Add.1)]
68/103. International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in
the field of natural disasters, from relief to development
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991, the annex to which
contains the guiding principles for the strengthening of the coordination of
emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations system, as well as all its
resolutions on international cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of
natural disasters, from relief to development, and recalling the resolutions of the
humanitarian segments of the substantive sessions of the Economic and Social
Council,
Reaffirming also the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and
independence for the provision of humanitarian assistance,
Reaffirming further the Hyogo Declaration, 1 the Hyogo Framework for Action
2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters 2 and
the common statement of the special session on the Indian Ocean disaster: risk
reduction for a safer future, 3 as adopted by the World Conference on Disaster
Reduction, held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, and bearing in
mind that the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action is coming to an
end in 2015,
Taking note with appreciation of the results of the midterm review of the
Hyogo Framework for Action, and noting the results of the fourth session of the
Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Geneva from 19 to 23 May
2013, and recognizing it as the main forum at the global level for strategic advice
coordination and partnership development for disaster risk reduction,
Recognizing that the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will
be held in Sendai, Japan, from 14 to 18 March 2015, to review the implementation
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A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, chap. I, resolution 1.
Ibid., resolution 2.
3
A/CONF.206/6 and Corr.1, annex II.
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