Measures to Be Taken for the Benefit of the Sudano-Sahelian Region

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 63United Nations Environment Programme, published in 1979.

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Desertification Drought Control Programmes of Action Rehabilitation Projects Sudano-Sahelian Region

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Endorses decision 6/11 B of 24 May 1978 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme38 and decision 25/10 of 27 June 1978 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme;39

36 A/CONF.74/36, chap. I.

37 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/33/25).

38 Ibid., annex I.

89 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1978, Supplement No. 13 (E/1978/53/Rev.l), chap. XX. General Assembly-Thirty-third Seseion Decides to designate the United Nations Sahelian Office, in addition to its current functions, as the arm of the United Nations to be responsible for assisting, on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme, the efforts of the fifteen countries of the Sudano-Sahelian region situated south of the Sahara and north of the equator4° to implement the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;

Authorizes, to that end, the organizational enlargement of the United Nations Sahelian Office and its regional office at Ouagadougou, without prejudice to the work undertaken in implementation of the recovery and rehabilitation programme in the Sudano- Sahelian region in conformity with the functions of the United Nations Sahelian Office as defined in paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 3054 (XXVIII), this process, in accordance with paragraph 1 above, to be the joint responsibility of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme;

Invites the specialized agencies and other organizations and programmes of the United Nations system concerned to co-operate fully with the United Nations Sahelian Office in its efforts to ensure the complete effectiveness of assistance provided to the fifteen countries of the Sudano-Sahelian region for the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the 5. General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Requests the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to submit to the General Assembly an annual report on the implementation in the Sudano-Sahelian region of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification.

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