Recognizes the value of domestic and regional actions aimed at making pre-identified, standby and trained national volunteer corps such as the White Helmets; recognizes the progress made by States members of the Common Market of the South in strengthening and broadening the regional role of the White Helmets initiative; recognizes that the White Helmets initiative can play an important role in the promotion, diffusion and fulfilment of the decisions achieved in the UN Millennium Declaration; requests the Secretary-General to take into consideration the 10 years that will have passed since the adoption of its resolution 49/139B, and, in view of the success of coordinated actions carried out since then, inter alia, by UNICEF, the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Secretariat, UNDP and the UN Volunteers, to consider their impact and to analyse possible steps and modalities to enhance the integration of the White Helmets initiative within the work of the UN system, suggesting appropriate mechanisms and areas and to report to the General Assembly at its 60th session.

Adopted without vote, 75th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.