United Nations A/RES/60/201 General Assembly Distr.: General 8 March 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 52 (g) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2005 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/60/488/Add.7)] 60/201. Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 59/235 of 22 December 2004 and other resolutions relating to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 1 Reaffirming the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 2 Recalling its resolution 58/211 of 23 December 2003, in which it declared 2006 the International Year of Deserts and Desertification, Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 3 Reaffirming the universal membership of the Convention, and acknowledging that desertification and drought are problems of a global dimension in that they affect all regions of the world, Noting that timely and effective implementation of the Convention would help to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and encouraging affected country parties to include, as appropriate, in their national development strategies measures to combat desertification, Stressing the need for further diversification of funding sources to address land degradation, in accordance with articles 20 and 21 of the Convention, _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480. 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 resolution 60/1. 2 05-49966