A/RES/75/319
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
1 September 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 73 (a)
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and
disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including
special economic assistance: strengthening of the
coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the
United Nations
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 30 August 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.127 and A/75/L.127/Add.1)]
75/319.
Solidarity with and support for the Government and people of
Haiti in the aftermath of the recent earthquake
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
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 Economic and Social Council resolution 2021/18 of 21 July
2021, by which the Council extended the mandate of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on
Haiti to provide advice on the long-term development strategy of Haiti to promote
socioeconomic recovery, reconstruction and stability, with particular attention to the
need to ensure coherence and sustainability in international support for Haiti, based
on the long-term national development priorities,
Reaffirming further the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and
independence for the provision of humanitarian assistance,
Deeply concerned about the devastating effects of the earthquake that struck
Haiti on 14 August 2021, followed by the passage of Tropical Storm Grace on
16 August 2021, which have resulted in significant loss of lives, damage to property,
displacement of residents and the loss of livelihoods, food security and nutrition,
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