A/RES/2035(XX). Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1965

• Resolution Number: A/RES/2035(XX)
• Year: 1965
• Session: 20th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

38

General

AMembly-Twentieth

Sel!11ion

3. Invites the Economic and Social Council to

request the Commission on

Human

Rights to continue

its consideration of the question of the further pro-

motion and encouragement of respect for human rights

and fundamental freedoms ;

4.

Recommends that the Economic and Social Coun-

cil should, in studying the question of transferring the

resources released as a result of disarmament, bear in

mind the economic needs of all countries, particularly

of the less developed countries, in order to help them

to achieve the safeguarding of human rights and

fundamental freedoms. " 1381st plenary meeting,

18 November 1965.

2034

(XX).

Assistance

in

cases

of

natural

disaster

The General Assembly,

Recalling Economic and Social Council resolution

1049

(XXXVII)

of

15

August 1964 requesting the

Secretary-General to make a study of the types of

assistance the United Nations might appropriately

provide, the order of magnitude of the resources the

Secretary-General might require for the purpose and

the alternative methods of providing such resources,

including the establishment of a United Nations fund

for assistance in cases of natural disaster, financed

through voluntary contributions, and to report to the

General Assembly at its nineteenth session,

Recalling

that

in resolution 1049

(XXXVII)

the

Economic and Social Council also requested the

Secretary-General to consider possible improvements

in the arrangements for co-ordinating international

assistance and to report to the Council

at

its thirty-

ninth session,

lf

aving,. considered the report of the Secretary-

General to the General Assembly

at

its nineteenth

session,3 the report of the Advisory Committee on

Administrative and Budgetary Questions thereon• and

the report of

the

Secretary-General to the Economic

and Social Council

at

its thirty-ninth session,5

Noting the Secretary-General's readiness to be

at

the disposal of international non-governmental organiza-

tions concerned with emergency relief to assist them

in pursuing the question of co-ordination,

Further noting that, in co-operation with the League

of

Red

Cross Societies, the United Nations can offer

both guidance and technical assistance in formulating

pre-disaster plans to countries requesting it, and also

assistance, immediately after a disaster, in drawing up

comprehensive plans for rehabilitation and reconstruc-

tion,

Welcoming the Secretary-General's statement that

the procedures set out in the twenty-eighth report

of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination6

for the co-ordination of assistance from mei'nbers of

the United Nations family are working satisfactorily,

l.

Invites States Members of the United Nations

or members of the specialized agencies and the In-

a Official Records of the General Assembly, Twentieth

Session, Annexes, agenda item

53,

document A/5845.

4 Ibid., document A/5883.

5 Official Records of the Economic

aind

Social Council,

Thirty-ninth Session, Annexes, agenda item

5,

document

E/4036.

6 Ibid., Thirty-sixth Session, Annexes, agenda items 4 and

document E/3765.

ternational Atomic Energy Agency which have not

already done

so:

(a)

To

consider the advisability

?f

setting_ up appro-

priate national planning

and

operatmg t?achmery most

suited to their own conditions,

and

designed

to

deter-

mine the degree

and

character of the relief _required ~nd

to give unified direction to relief operations,

Umted

Nations resident representatives being suitably as-

sociated with such

work;

(

b)

To

consider setting

up

national

Red

Cross or

Red

Crescent societies;

2.

Requests Member States, whe? offering. emer-

gency assistance in cases of natural disa~ter, to

m_form

and

make use of the appropriate standmg. machmery

set

up

in the stricken countries and to mfor!ll the

Secretary-General of the type of emergency assistance

they are in a position to offer;

3.

Notes with satisfaction the existing arrangemer.its

which the United Nations and the specialized agencies

have for providing emergency assistance,

ir.iclu_ding

their relationships with non-governmental orgamz~tt~ns,

particularly with the League of Red Cross Societies;

4. Invites the executive heads of the organizations

and programmes within the United Nations system,

under the leadership of the Secretary-General, to con-

tinue and intensify their efforts to ensure the full co-

ordination of the assistance made available by and

through those organizations and programmes to coun-

tries stricken by natural disasters;

5. Approves the proposal of the Secreta_ry-Gen~ral

that he be authorized to draw on the

Workmg

Capital

Fund

in the amount

of

$100,000 for emergency aid in

any one year, with a normal ceiling of $20,000 per

country in the case of any one disaster ;

6.

Decides to review

at

its twenty-third session the

experimental arrangements referred to in paragraph 5

above. 1390th plenary meeting,

7 December 1965.

2035

(XX).

World

social

situation

The General Assembly,

Having considered the report

of

the Secretary-General

concerning the measures taken to implement General

Assembly resolution 1916

(XVIII)

of 5 December

1963,7

Taking note with satisfaction of Economic and Social

Council resolution 1086 E

(XXXIX)

of 30

July

1965,

by which

the

Council, inter

alia,

invited the Social Com-

mission to re-examine,

at

its seventeenth session, the

role which it should play within the framework of

United Nations programmes in order to meet the needs

of Member States, and to submit its proposals regard-

ing

the

action to this effect to the Council

at

its forty-

first session,

Recalling its resolution 1916

(XVIII)

which, inter

alia,

requested the Economic and Social Council to

review its resolution 496

(XVI)

of

31

July 1953 en-

titled

"Programme

of concerted practical action in the

social field of the United Nations and the specialized

agencies" in the light of the Report

on

the World

Social Situation, 1963,8

and

of the objectives of the

United Nations Development Decade,

7 Official Records

of

the General Assembly, Twentieth Srs-

sion, Annexes, agenda item

54,

document A/6016.

8 United Nations publication, Sales

No.:

63.IV.4.