Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the results of the third special session of the Committee on Natural Resources;1' 7 2.
Endorses Economic and Social Council resolutions 1979/31 of 9 May 1979 and 1979/67, 1979/68 and 1979/70 of 3 August 1979, concerning the follow-up activities for the implementation of the Mar del Plata Action Plan;
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Decides to hold a special one-day meeting during its thirty-fifth session formally to launch the lntemational Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade, 1981-1990, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1979 /31 and on the understanding that the requirements for documentation set out in that resolution will be reduced;
144 Report of the United Nations Water Conference, Mar del Plata, 14-25 March 1977 (United Nations publication, Sales No.
m /bid., chap. l.
ue See Of!icial Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1979, Supplement No. 10 (E/1979/40 and Corr.1), chap. XXI, sect. O.
m E/1979/91.
Requests the Committee on Natural Resources, at its regular biennial sessions during the 1980s, to review the progress made by Govemments in the implementation of the Action Plan and to provide continued guidance and oversight to the supporting water-related activities undertaken by the organizations of the United Nations system, including the plans and programmes of the Decade.
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