United Nations Conference on the Human Environment

A/RES/2581(XXIV)No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

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4 versions · 1970–1973

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10 topics

Appointment of Members Conference and Meeting Services Conferences Environment Establishment Information Dissemination Members Non-Governmental Organizations Public Information Report Preparation

What does this mandate say?

16 operative paragraphs

Endorses in general the proposals contained in the report of the Secretary-General regarding the purposes and objectives of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment;62

Affirms that it should be the main purpose of the Conference to serve as a practica} means to encourage, and to provide guidelines for, action by Governments and intemational organizations designed to protect and improve the human environment and to remedy and prevent its impairment, by means of intemational co-operation, bearing in mind the particular importance of enabling developing countries to forestall the occurrence of such problems;

Entrusts the Secretary-General with over-all responsibility for organizing and preparing for the Conference, bearing in mind the views expressed during the debates of the Economic and Social Council at its forty-seventh session and of the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session;

Establishes a Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment--consisting of highly qualified representatives nominated by the Govemments of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Cz.echoslovakia, France, Ghana, Guinea, India, lran, Italy, Jamaica, J apan, Mauritius, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Singapore, Sweden, Togo, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Arab Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northem Ireland, the United States of America, Yugoslavia and Zambia--to advise the Secretary-General;

Requests the Secretary-General to set up immediately a small conf erence secretariat by drawing, with the agreement of the specialized agencies concemed, particularly upon regular staff of the United Nations system, and to appoint at the appropriate time a Secretary-General of the Conference;

119 E/4667.

60 Ofjicial Records of the General Assembly, Twentyfourth Session, Supplement No. 3 (A/7603 and Corr.1), chapter V, section D.

61 Jbid., Twenty-fourth Session, Annexes, agenda item 21, document A/7707.

62 See E/4667, paras. 82-92.

Further requests the Secretary-General to pursue the consultations on the preparations for the Conference, undertaken by him in accordance with General Assembly resolution 2398 (XXIII), to take account of the results of other intemational conferences, such as the conference on the problerns of environment organized by the Economic Comrnission for Europe and scheduled to take place at Prague in 1971, and to draw on contributions frorn appropriate intergovemrnental and non-governmental organizations;

Invites the specialized agencies, the Intemational Atomic Energy Agency and the Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology to Developrnent to collaborate closely with the Secretary- General in the preparations for the Conference and to assist, as appropriate, in the work of the Preparatory Comrnittee;

Invites the intergovernmental and non-govemmental organizations concemed to lend every possible assistance in the preparations for the Conference;

Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Preparatory Committee, to take the necessary steps, as part of the preparations for the Conf erence, to bring to public attention the nature and importance of the problerns of the human environment;

Believes it essential that all participating countries should be enabled to take an active part in the preparations for the Conference and in the Conference itself, and requests the Secretary-General to investigate what concrete steps could be taken to this end;

Notes the outline of the range of the possible financia! implications for the United Nations of the holding of the Conference presented in the report of the Secretary-General63 and in bis note64 and requests him, in the light of the views expressed during the debates of the Economic and Social Council at its forty-seventh session and of the General Assembly at its twenty-fourth session, to rnake ali efforts to reduce the costs of the Conference;

Decides that the Conference should be of two weeks' duration and requests the Secretary-General to take full account of this fact in preparing for the Conference;

Believes that, for the Conference to achieve its objectives, it is essential that its agenda be selective, its organizational structure simple and efficient, and that the docurnentation be kept within reasonable limits;

Accepts with appreciation the invitation of the Government of Sweden to hold the Conference in Sweden,611 in June 1972;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a brief progress report, through the Economic and Social Council at its forty-ninth session, to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session;

Decides to consider the progress of the preparatory work of the Conference and to take the neces- S!lfY fu~er decisions at its twenty-fifth and twentysixth sess1ons.

15 December 1969.

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