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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/190
20 January 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 99
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/48/725)]
48/190. Dissemination of the principles of the Rio Declaration on
Environment and Development
The General Assembly,
Convinced that the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1/
contains fundamental principles for the achievement of sustainable
development, based on a new and equitable global partnership,
Conscious of the fact that dissemination of the principles contained in
the Declaration will contribute to increasing public awareness of the need to
take a balanced and integrated approach to development and environment
questions,
Bearing in mind its resolution 47/191 of 22 December 1992, in
paragraph 4(a) thereof, in which it recommended that the Commission
Sustainable Development promote the incorporation of the principles
Declaration in the implementation of Agenda 21, 2/ and taking note
ofparagraphs 32 and 42 of chapter I of the report of the Commission
Sustainable Development on its first session, 3/
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particular
on
of the
on
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 I.
2/
Ibid., annex II.
3/
E/1993/25/Add.1.
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