Requests the Secretary-General and the UN Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl, in his capacity as Administrator of the UNDP and as Chairperson of the UN Development Group, to continue to take appropriate practical measures to strengthen coordination of the international efforts in that area; notes the necessity of further measures to ensure the integration of the assessment by the Chernobyl Forum of the environmental, health and socio - economic consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident into the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network; proclaims the third decade after the Chernobyl disaster, 2006-2016, the Decade of Recovery and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions, to be focused on achieving the goal of a return to normal life for the affected communities as far as is possible within that time frame; requests the UNDP to coordinate, within existing resources, the efforts of the UN system and with other relevant actors on the implementation of the Decade; requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts in the implementation of the relevant General Assembly resolutions; requests the UN Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl to continue his work in organizing, in collaboration with the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, a further study of the health, environmental and socio-economic consequences of the Chernobyl disaster; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 65th session, under a separate sub-item, a report containing a comprehensive assessment of the implementation of all aspects of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 55th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.