Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 50th session on early-warning capacities within the UN system and to make proposals on how they may be improved and better coordinated in order to provide for an adequate response to natural disasters and similar disasters with an adverse impact on the environment and, in this context, also to make concrete proposals on the transfer of technologies related to early warning, in particular to developing countries, taking into account chapter 34 of Agenda 21 as well as the Principles of the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation; also requests the Secretary-General to include in his report recommendations on the capacity of the UN system to coordinate effectively information about natural disasters and similar disasters with an adverse impact on the environment and to pass on this information to regional, national and sectoral early-warning capacities.

Adopted without vote, 93rd meeting

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Adopted at the 93rd plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1994.