A/RES/74/222
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 19 (g)
Sustainable development: report of the United Nations
Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment
Programme
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2019
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/74/381/Add.7)]
74/222.
Report of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the
United Nations Environment Programme
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the mandate contained in its resolution 2997 (XXVII) of
15 December 1972, by which it established the United Nations Environment
Programme, and other relevant resolutions that reinforce its mandate, as well as the
1997 Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of the United Nations
Environment Programme of 7 February 1997, 1 the Malmö Ministerial Declaration of
31 May 2000 2 and the Nusa Dua Declaration of 26 February 2010, 3
Reaffirming also its commitment to strengthening the role of the United Nations
Environment Programme as the leading global environmental authority that sets the
global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the
environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations
system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment,
Recalling the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, held from 20 to 22 June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
entitled “The future we want”, 4 and noting the follow-up on paragraph 88,
subparagraphs (a) to (h), of the outcome document, incl uding through General
Assembly resolution 67/213 of 21 December 2012,
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19-22491 (E)
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/52/25),
annex, decision 19/1, annex.
Ibid., Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/55/25), annex I, decision SS.VI/1, annex.
Ibid., Sixty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 25 (A/65/25), annex I, decision SS.XI/9.
Resolution 66/288, annex.
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