Designates the Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa as the focal point of the Decade, in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and other relevant bodies of the UN, including the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat; invites States parties to the Convention, observers and other relevant stakeholders to organize activities to observe the Decade with the aim of raising awareness of the causes of and solutions to ongoing land degradation and desertification in the framework of the 10-year strategic plan and framework to enhance implementation of the Convention (2008-2018); encourages Member States and multilateral agencies in a position to do so to support the secretariat of the Convention financially and technically, with a view to supporting special initiatives in observance of the Decade as well as other observance events and activities worldwide; requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 69th sess. on the status of the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 66th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.