A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/33 17 January 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 162 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/51/L.42 and Add.1)] 51/33. Proclamation of 7 December as International Civil Aviation Day The General Assembly, Noting that 7 December marks the anniversary of the signing of the Convention on International Civil Aviation,1 done at Chicago on that date in 1944, Recalling that the preamble to the Convention states that the future development of international civil aviation can greatly help to create and preserve friendship and understanding among the nations and peoples of the world, Welcoming resolution A29-1 adopted in 1992 by International Civil Aviation Organization declaring International Civil Aviation Day each year starting the Secretary-General of the organization to inform the United Nations accordingly, the Assembly of the 7 December as in 1994, and instructing the Secretary-General of Noting that, at its meeting of 27 May 1996, the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization requested the Secretary-General of the organization to take steps to urge the General Assembly of the United Nations to recognize officially 7 December each year as International Civil Aviation Day, 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 15, No. 102, p. 295. 97-76135 /...