A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/189 21 February 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 12 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Second Committee (A/51/601)] 51/189. Institutional arrangements for the implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities The General Assembly, Recalling the relevant provisions of Agenda 21,1 in particular chapters 17, 33, 34, 38 and other related chapters, and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development,2 Recalling also its resolution 50/110 of 20 December 1995 on the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, in which it endorsed, inter alia, Governing Council decision 18/31 on the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities, Noting the successful conclusion of the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt a Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, which was held in Washington, D.C., from 23 October to 3 November 1995, 1 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. 2 Ibid., annex I. 97-76861 /...