A/RES/50/115. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1995

• Resolution Number: A/RES/50/115
• Year: 1995
• Session: 50th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/50/115

16 February 1996

Fiftieth session

Agenda item 96 (d)

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/50/618/Add.3)]

50/115. Protection of global climate for present and

future generations of mankind

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolutions 45/212 of 21 December 1990, 46/169 of

19 December 1991, 47/195 of 22 December 1992, 48/189 of 21 December 1993 and

49/120 of 19 December 1994,

Noting with satisfaction that a large number of States and one regional

economic integration organization have ratified the United Nations Framework

Convention on Climate Change 1/ and calling upon other States to take

appropriate action to that end,

Noting that, in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 of General Assembly

resolution 48/189, the first session of the Conference of the Parties to the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was convened from 28

March to 7 April 1995 in Berlin, and that it was attended by one hundred and

sixteen of the then one hundred and eighteen Parties to the Convention, as

well as by a large number of governmental, intergovernmental and

non-governmental observers,

Expressing its deep appreciation to the Government of Germany for the

generous manner in which it hosted the first session of the Conference of the

Parties,

Looking forward to the ongoing work of the Conference of the Parties and

its subsidiary bodies in addressing climate change within the framework of the

1/ A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex I.

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