Plan of Action to Combat Desertification Resolutions

A/RES/42/189No PDF available

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 82fDesertification and drought, published in 1988.

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10 documents · 1979–1990

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1990A/RES/44/172BPlan of Action to Combat Desertification resolutionsCompare with earlier document
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1986A/RES/40/198[B]Plan of Action to Combat DesertificationCompare with earlier document

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15 topics

Budget Contributions Desertification Development Assistance Development Strategies Disaster Relief Environmental Degradation Financing Inter-Agency Cooperation Non-Governmental Organizations Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Resources Mobilization Special Accounts Sudano-Sahelian Region Sustainable Development

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6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of decision 14/15 A of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme;

Urges Governments, organizations of the United Nations system and other intergovernmental bodies to in tensify their efforts to combat desertification, to continue to give priority to measures recommended in the Plan of Action to Combat Desertification and by the Governing Council in decision 14/15, and to increase assistance to the countries concerned, with a view to the implementa tion of their national and regional programmes aimed at desertification control;

Notes the significant role that non-governmental or ganizations are continuing to play in efforts to combat desertification and calls upon Governments and organiza tions of the United Nations system and other intergovern mental bodies to explore all possibilities for increasing their participation in these efforts;

Urges the Governments of countries affected by desertification to accord sustained priority to medium term and long-term strategies and programmes for com bating desertification and to ensure that these are smoothly integrated with their national development plans and the regional co-operative programmes to curb the spread of environmental degradation;

Requests the Governing Council to submit a report through the Economic and Social Council, on the progress achieved in implementing the measures approved by the Governing Council to enhance the work of the Inter Agency Working Group on Desertification;

Also requests the Governing Council to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, throu®h the Economic and Social Council, on the progress made m the implementation of the Plan of Action.

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