Recognizes the success achieved since 1990 in meeting the goals and objectives of the Decade, as expressed in General Assembly resolution 44/236 and in the Yokohama Strategy for a Safer World: Guidelines for Natural Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Mitigation and its Plan of Action; reiterates the importance of fully integrating natural disaster reduction into the sustainable development strategies of the UN and of other international organizations; decides that the international cooperative framework for natural disaster reduction, as recommended in the report of the Secretary-General, should draw on the success of the functional and organizational arrangements that were put in place for the implementation of the Decade; requests the Secretary-General to establish, as of Jan. 2000, an inter-agency task force, with representation from all relevant UN bodies and members of the scientific and technical community, including regional representation, to serve as the main forum within UN for continued and concerted emphasis on natural disaster reduction.

Adopted without vote, 46th 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. 95-96 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).