United Nations A/RES/60/189 General Assembly Distr.: General 9 February 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 52 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/488)] 60/189. Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-third session The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, 53/242 of 28 July 1999, 56/193 of 21 December 2001, 57/251 of 20 December 2002, 58/209 of 23 December 2003 and 59/226 of 22 December 2004, Taking into account Agenda 21 1 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 2 Reaffirming the role of the United Nations Environment Programme as the principal body within the United Nations system in the field of environment, which should take into account, within its mandate, the sustainable development needs of developing countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, Reaffirming also that capacity-building and technology support to developing countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, in environment-related fields are important components of the work of the United Nations Environment Programme, 1. Takes note of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its twenty-third session 3 and the decisions contained therein; 2. Notes that the Governing Council, at its twenty-third session, discussed all components of the recommendations on international environmental governance as contained in its decision SS.VII/1, 4 and notes also that reporting on international environmental governance is included in the agenda of its ninth special session; _______________ 1 Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II. 2 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August– 4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex. 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 25 and addendum (A/60/25 and Add.1). 4 Ibid., Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/57/25), annex I. 05-49894