International Strategy for Disaster Reduction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Welcomes the progress made in the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action; calls upon the international community to increase its efforts to fully implement the commitments of the Hyogo Declaration and the Hyogo Framework for Action; recognizes that each State has the primary responsibility for its own sustainable development and for taking effective measures to reduce disaster risk; also recognizes the efforts made by Member States to develop national and local capacities to implement the Hyogo Framework for Action; stresses that continued cooperation and coordination among Governments, the UN system, other organizations, regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and other partners are considered essential to address effectively the impact of natural disasters; encourages Member States to increase their commitment to the effective implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, making full use of the Strategy system's mechanisms, such as the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction; stresses the importance of disaster risk reduction and subsequent growing demands on the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the need to review the current methods of financing the secretariat, with a view to stabilizing its financial base, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a proposal for that purpose in his next report on this subject; stresses the need to address risk reduction of and vulnerabilities to all natural hazards, including geological and hydro meteorological hazards, in a comprehensive manner.

Adopted without vote, 78th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 62nd sess., Suppl. no. 49.