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Executive Director to examine the feasibility of providing on-site
interpretation facilities and to continue negotiations with the host
Government with a view to improving the facilities available at the
headquarters office at Nairobi, including external communication services,
Reaffirming paragraphs 38.21 and 38.23 of Agenda 21, 3/ in which it was
stated that there would be a need for an enhanced and strengthened role for
the United Nations Environment Programme and its Governing Council, that,
inter alia, the regional offices of the Programme should be strengthened
without weakening its headquarters at Nairobi and that its liaison and
interaction with the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank
should be reinforced and intensified,
Reaffirming also paragraphs 25, 26 and 32(c) of General Assembly
resolution 47/191 of 22 December 1992,
Commending the United Nations Environment Programme for its leading role
in the negotiation of many international conventions on the environment, its
mobilization of global environmental awareness and its contribution in the
area of capacity-building in regard to the preservation of the environment and
its integration into sustainable development,
Mindful of the need to rationalize meetings related to the United
Nations Environment Programme so as to ensure effective capacity utilization
at the headquarters of the Programme,
1.
Endorses the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations
Environment Programme on the work of its seventeenth session and the decisions
contained therein; 4/
2.
Stresses the need for close cooperation between the United Nations
Environment Programme and the Commission on Sustainable Development in
implementing the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development, in accordance with the relevant provisions of
chapter 38 of Agenda 21;
3.
Welcomes the action-oriented approach of the Governing Council
towards the implementation of the follow-up activities to the Conference, as
outlined in its report;
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Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1 (Vol. I and
Vol. I/Corr.1, Vol. II, Vol. III and Vol. III/Corr.1)) (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted
by the Conference, resolution 1, annex II.
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session,
Supplement No. 25 (A/48/25).
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