Assistance to Benin, the Central African Republic, Ecuador, Madagascar and Vanuatu : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Appeals to Member States, international financial institutions, the specialized agencies and organizations and programmes of the UN system, humanitarian organizations and voluntary agencies to respond generously and urgently to the needs of those countries as identified in the report of the Secretary-General and to continue and increase their assistance in response to the reconstruction, economic recovery and development needs of those countries; requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps and to mobilize the resources needed, to provide assistance for all disasters, natural or otherwise, striking those countries, both in order to meet any reconstruction needs resulting from disasters that have already occurred and in order to implement preventive programmes to reduce the effects of future disasters; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 47th session a report on the implementation of the resolution, containing: (a) the identification of priorities for action by the international community; (b) an assessment of the assistance actually received; (c) an assessment of needs still unmet and specific proposals for responding to them effectively.

Adopted without vote, 71st meeting

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Adopted at the 71st plenary meeting, 21 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. 161-162. - (GAOR, 45th sess., Suppl. no. 49).