A/RES/74/114
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 71 (d)
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and
disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including
special economic assistance: strengthening of international
cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate
and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
16 December 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/74/L.30 and A/74/L.30/Add.1)]
74/114.
Persistent legacy of the Chernobyl disaster
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 71/125 of 8 December 2016,
Reaffirming also its resolution 68/99 of 13 December 2013 on the strengthening
of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize
the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, as well as its other relevant resolutions on
the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and taking note of the decisions
adopted by the relevant United Nations bodies, the specialized agencies and other
organizations of the United Nations system in the implementation of those resolutions,
Acknowledging the importance of the efforts made by the Governments of
Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the United Nations system, other
international organizations and civil society to study, mitigate and minimize the
consequences of the Chernobyl disaster,
Acknowledging also the organization of the international conference entitled
“Chernobyl 30 years later: from an emergency to a revival and sustainable social and
economic development of affected territories”, held in Minsk on 25 April 2016, and
taking note of the adoption of the Minsk Declaration, 1
Recognizing, three decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the still-persistent
serious long-term consequences thereof, as well as the continuing related needs of the
affected communities and territories,
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