Urgesall States which have not already done so to examine the possibility of ratifying at the earliest opportunity the intemational conventions and protocols designed to ensure better protection of the marine environment, to improve the safety of navigation and to guarantee the training and competence of crews;
4
Urgesall States to co-operate in order to implement material measures for the effective combating of marine pollution, without prejudice to the results of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea with regard to marine pollution;
Requests the Inter-Governmental Maritime Con- 5. sultative Organization and the Goveming Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to continue to consider the problems relating to marine pollution and to report thereon, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session.
1
Takes note with satisfaction of the opening by the Secretary-General on 15 March 1979 of the Special Account for financing the implementation of the Plan of Action to Cornbat Desertification, bearing in mind the voluntary nature of that account;
2
Notes with concern the lack of adequate financia! resources for the irnplementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification and the slow progress achieved thus far;
3
Also notes with concern that no contribution to the Special Account has been made thus far;
4
Calls upon donar Govemrnents and financing organizations to contribute generously to the Special Ac- 110 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 327, No. 4714, p. 4.
120 A/CONF.74/36.
121 lbid., chap. l.
122 See Of!icial Records of the General Assembly, Thirtyfourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/34/25).
128 A/34/575. V. Resolutlons adopted oa the reporfll of tbe Secoad Commlttee count, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;
Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Environment Programme for its work in co-operation with Govemments and interested organizations of the United Nations system within the framework of its responsibilities as co-ordinator for the implementation of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification;
6
Calls upon donar countries and interested organizations to participate actively in the work of the Consultative Group for Desertification Control and to support the projects submitted to them through the Consultative Group;
7
Requeststhe Secretary-General, in consultation with the Goveming Council of the United Nations Environment Programme, to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session a report, on the basis of a study to be prepared by a group of high-level specialists in intemational financing to be convened by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, which will deal with:
a
A complete inventory of relevant ideas and proposals put forward in the United Nations system of possible new ways and means to finance programmes of multilateral organizations at the world level, additional to regular assessed budgets and conventional extrabudgetary resources;
b
A financia! plan and analysis outlining the components and costs of a programme to stop further desertification and identifying what is already being financed and what additional resources may be needed to meet the mínimum objectives of stopping the spread of desertification;
e
Methods for the mobilization of domestic resources;
d
The practicality of obtaining loans from Govemments and world capital markets on a concessionary basis;
e
The feasibility of the creation of a public international corporation which would attract investments from countries as well as institutions and would provide financing for suitable anti-desertification projects with non-commercial rates of retum;
f
The means for encouraging the active participation of foundations in the financing of anti-desertificatlon training and research programmes.
34/18S. Restoration and bnprovement of the Fouta- Djallon masslf
Invitesthe Goveming Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to consider favourably the inclusion of the pilot project for the restoration and improvement of the Fouta-Djallon massif in its programme of action against desertification;
2
Requeststhe Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session on the imple-· mentation of the present resolution.
1()7th plenary meeting
18 Decemher 1979
34/186. Co-operation in the field of the environment conceming natural resources shared by two or more States
1
Takes note of the report as adopted of the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on Natural Resources Shared by Two or More States established under decision 44 (III) of the Governing Council of the Unitcd Natiom: Environment Programme in conformity with General Asscmbly resolution 3129 (XXVIII);
2
Takes note of the draft principies as guidelines and recommendations in the conservation and harmonious utilization of natural resources shared by two or more States without prejudice to the binding nature of those rules already recognized as such in intemational law;
3
Requestsali States to use the principies as guidelines and recommendations in the formulation of bilateral or multilateral conventions regarding natural resources shared by two or more States, on the basis of the principie of good faith and in the spirit of good neighbourliness and in such a way as to en bance and not adversely affect development and the interests of all countries, in particular the developing countries;
4
Requeststhe Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the progress made in the implemcntation of the present resolution.
l 07th plenary meeting
18 December 1979
34/187. Implementation in the Sudano-Sahelian region of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification
Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environrnent Programme on the implementation in the Sudano- Sahelian region of the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification131 and the report of the Secretary-General on measures taken for the benefit of the Sudano- Sahelian region;132 129 See Officíal Records of the General Assembly, Thirtyfourth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/34/25), annex l.
13º See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1979. Supplement No. 10 (E/1979/40 and Corr.l), chap. XXI, sect. H.
131 A/34/ 405, annex.
132 A/34/ 406.
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