Humanitarian assistance to victims of natural disasters and similar emergency situations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Stresses the important contribution made in providing humanitarian assistance by intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations working impartially and with strictly humanitarian motives; invites all States whose populations are in need of such assistance to facilitate the work of these organizations in implementing humanitarian assistance, in particular the supply of food, medicines and health care, for which access to victims is essential; requests the Secretary-General to pursue, within existing resources, the necessary consultations with Governments and intergovernmental, governmental and non-governmental organizations with a view to determining means of facilitating the delivery of appropriate humanitarian assistance to the victims of natural disasters or similar emergency situations, including the establishment of relief corridors; invites the Secretary-General to study, within existing resources, the possibility of preparing an indicative list of persons and bodies with expert knowledge of the delivery and management of emergency humanitarian assistance whom UN could call upon, to make an accurate and speedy assessment of the needs and a realistic determination of the best means of delivering the aid.

Adopted without vote, 68th meeting

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Adopted at the 68th plenary meeting, 14 Dec. 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 45th session, Volume 1, 18 September-21 December 1990. - A/45/49. - 1991. - p. 183-184. - (GAOR, 45th sess., Suppl. no. 49).