Welcomes the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on international cooperation to reduce the impact of the El Niño phenomenon; requests the Secretary-Gneral to continue to assess the feasibility of establishing an international research centre on the El Niño phenomenon at Guayaquil, Ecuador; Reiterates the coordination role of the Economic and Social Council to provide guidance to its functional commissions on the reduction of natural disasters within the overall context of sustainable development strategies; calls for the continued and full implementation of General Assembly resolutions 52/200 and 53/185 as an integral function of the successor arrangements to be made following the conclusion of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

Adopted without vote, 44th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1999, New York, 20 Jan. and 2-5 Feb. 1999; resumed organizational session for 1999, New York, 25 March, 6 and 7 May and 23 June 1999; substantive session of 1999, Geneva, 5-30 July 1999; resumed substantive session of 1999, New York, 16 Sept., 26 Oct., 15 Nov. and 16 Dec. 1999 - E/1999/99 - p. 72-73 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).