United Nations A/RES/58/219 General Assembly Distr.: General 9 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 96 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/58/486)] 58/219. United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development The General Assembly, Recalling chapter 36 of Agenda 21, on promoting education, public awareness and training, adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 3 to 14 June 1992, 1 Recalling also the relevant provisions of the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”) on education, in particular its provision 124 (d) on the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2 Recalling further its resolution 57/254 of 20 December 2002, Reaffirming the internationally agreed development goal of achieving universal primary education, in particular that by 2015 children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling, Taking note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Welcoming the fact that the Commission on Sustainable Development, at its eleventh session, identified education as one of the cross-cutting issues of its multiyear programme of work, 3 Emphasizing that education is an indispensable element for achieving sustainable development, _______________ 1 See Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the Conference, 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 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 9 (E/2003/29), chap. I, sect. A. 03 50766