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Commodities (2003), para. 20
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- 4. Urges Governments and invites international financial institutions to continue to assess the effectiveness of the systems for compensatory financing of export-earnings shortfalls, and in this regard stresses the importance of empowering developing country commodity producers to insure themselves against risk, including natural disasters;
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- Environment
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons (2011), para. 04
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- Convinced that a multilateral, universal and binding agreement prohibiting the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons would contribute to the elimination of the nuclear threat and to the climate for negotiations leading to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons, thereby strengthening international peace and security,
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Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy (2013), para. 07
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- Deeply concerned that 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, that 1.3 billion people are without electricity and that, even when energy services are available, millions of poor people are unable to pay for them,
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- Economic Rights
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The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (2013), para. 19
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- 3. Calls upon that State to accede to the Treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and to place all its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full- scope Agency safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all States of the region and as a step towards enhancing peace and security;
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2005), para. 31
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- 10. Stresses the need for partnerships among Governments, organizations of the United Nations system, relevant humanitarian organizations and specialized companies to promote training to strengthen preparedness for and response to natural disasters;
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- Environment
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Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all (2019), para. 27
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- 3. Strongly encourages Governments and other relevant stakeholders to take actions to achieve universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy, increase the global share of new and renewable energy, improve the inclusion of developing countries in energy sector cooperation, where relevant, and increase the rate of improvement in energy efficiency for a clean, low-emission, low-carbon, climate-resilient, safe, efficient, modern, affordable and sustainable energy system, given the systemic sustainable development benefits, while taking into consideration the diversity of national situations, priorities, policies, specific needs and challenges and capacities of developing countries, including their energy mix and energy systems;
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Reducing nuclear danger (2009), para. 06
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- Considering that, until nuclear weapons cease to exist, it is imperative on the part of the nuclear-weapon States to adopt measures that assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons,
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- Environment
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Convention on Biological Diversity (2000), para. 26
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- 12. Recognizes the importance of national action to conserve biological diversity in many habitats, including forests, wetlands and coastal areas, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, in particular article 8, and the need to mobilize national and international support for such national actions;
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- Environment
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- Social & Cultural Rights
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Renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons (2010), para. 06
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- Reaffirming the crucial importance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 0F 1 as the cornerstone of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and an essential foundation for the pursuit of nuclear disarmament and for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, welcoming the results of the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to be held in 2010, the year of the sixty- fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and noting the importance of achieving the success of the Review Conference,
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Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda (2002), para. 25
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- 1. Reaffirms that any possibility that nuclear weapons could be used represents a continued risk for humanity;
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Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories (2001), para. 11
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- Concerned about any activities aimed at exploiting the natural and human resources of the Non-Self-Governing Territories to the detriment of the interests of the inhabitants of those Territories,
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Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas (2016), para. 17
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- 5. Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to withdraw any reservations or interpretive declarations contrary to the object and purpose of the treaties establishing nuclear-weapon-free zones;
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2011), para. 17
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- Recognizing further that the Israeli siege imposed on the occupied Gaza Strip, including the closure of border crossings, constitutes collective punishment and leads to disastrous humanitarian, economic, social and environmental consequences,
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- Mar 5, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2020), para. 088
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- 46. Recognizes the important contribution of healthy ecosystems to reducing disaster risk and building community resilience, and encourages all States, United Nations entities and other relevant actors to promote ecosystem-based approaches and nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction at all levels and across all phases of disaster risk reduction and management;
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Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization (2006), para. 07
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- Expressing its grave concern and sympathy over the human casualties caused by the worst natural disasters and their devastating impact on the socio-economic situation in the Economic Cooperation Organization region, which is prone to disasters such as earthquakes, floods and drought,
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- Environment
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Assistance to Mozambique (2003), para. 08
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- Deeply concerned at the unprecedented floods in Mozambique in 2000 and 2001, which have resulted in the tragic loss of human lives, extensive destruction of property and infrastructure and the dislodging and scattering of landmines,
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Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (2006), para. 03
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- Noting with satisfaction that there are one hundred and fifty-five States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, 1 including all of the permanent members of the Security Council,
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- Health
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United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development (2014), para. 48
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- 17. The impact of alternative development programmes should be assessed by taking into account their contribution to the control of illicit crop cultivation, including the eradication of such crops, and through estimates based on human development indices, socioeconomic and environmental indicators and impartial and accurate evaluations.
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International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, 2017 (2016), para. 19
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- 4. Encourages all States, the United Nations system and all other actors to take advantage of the International Year to promote actions at all levels, including through international cooperation, and to support sustainable tourism as a means of promoting and accelerating sustainable development, especially poverty eradication;
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- Environment
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- Poverty
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Agreement between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization (2004), para. 42
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- 4. When requesting the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion, the World Tourism Organization shall inform the Economic and Social Council of the request.
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Permanent neutrality of Turkmenistan (2015), para. 08
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- Underlining the importance of the economic and geo-economic aspects of the neutrality of Turkmenistan for regional interconnectivity, which is conducive to regional development, and in this regard welcoming the initiatives of Turkmenistan on the stable transit of energy and the development of reliable transport and transit corridors, 2
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Harmony with Nature (2016), para. 30
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- (a) To further build up a knowledge network in order to advance a holistic conceptualization of sustainable development in its three dimensions to identify different economic approaches that reflect the drivers and values of living in harmony with nature, relying on current scientific information to achieve sustainable development, and to facilitate the support and recognition of the fundamental interconnections between humanity and nature;
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Humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons (2016), para. 02
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- Reiterating the deep concern about the catastrophic consequences of nuclear weapons,
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Scope to be covered by the special session of the General Assembly for an overall review and appraisal of theimplementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) (2001), para. 39
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- 3. Confirms that the special session should facilitate sharing views on local, national and regional experiences in the implementation of the Habitat Agenda;
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Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance: special economic assistance to individual countries or regions (1998), para. 05
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- Recognizing that natural disasters constitute a development problem of great magnitude, the solution of which calls for substantial resources, requiring national efforts to be supplemented by international financial and technical assistance,
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Oceans and the law of the sea (2019), para. 330
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- 264. Recalls that, in “The future we want”, States reaffirmed the importance of area-based conservation measures, including marine protected areas, consistent with international law and based on best available scientific information, as a tool for conservation of biological diversity and sustainable use of its components, and noted decision X/2 of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, that by 2020, 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are to be conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area- based conservation measures; 116
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Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: a new agenda (2003), para. 27
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- 1. Reaffirms that any possibility that nuclear weapons could be used represents a continued risk for humanity;
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Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence (2018), para. 26
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- 7. Also recognizes the need for the multilateral trade, economic and financial architecture to incorporate and promote sustainable development and ensure greater coherence and coordination to promote an enabling international environment that facilitates the work of Member States in addressing, inter alia, poverty, inequalities and environmental challenges;
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- Mar 5, 2020
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Effective global response to address the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon (2019), para. 17
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- Acknowledging the importance of humanitarian assistance provided to countries that were most affected by the adverse effects of the 2015/16 El Niño phenomenon, while stressing the need to transcend this approach in favour of a multidisciplinary and articulated development-based response to strengthen national institutional capacities and effectively address these adverse consequences,
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Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries (2000), para. 09
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- Expressing its appreciation to donor partners for participating in the fourth Meeting of Governmental Experts and for the generous contribution that facilitated the participation of landlocked developing countries,
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