A/RES/74/208. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/74/208
• Year: 2019
• Session: 74th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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Seventy -fourth ses sion

Agen da item 19

Sustain able develop ment

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on

19 December 2019

[on th e report of the Seco nd Commi ttee (A/ 74/381)]

74/208. Oil s lick o n Leba nese s hores

The General Assembl y,

Reca llin g it s resol utions 61/194 of 20 D ecember 2006, 62/188 of 19 Decembe r

2007 , 63/211 o f 19 Dece mber 20 08, 6 4/19 5 of 21 Dece mber 2 009, 65/1 47 of

20 Dece mber 2010 , 6 6/1 92 of 22 De cember 2011 , 67/201 of 21 D ecember 20 12,

68/2 06 o f 20 De cember 2013, 6 9/2 12 o f 19 De cember 2014, 70/194 of 22 D ecember

2015 , 71 /21 8 of 21 Decem ber 2016, 72/ 209 of 20 Dec ember 2017 and 7 3/22 4 of

20 Dece mber 20 18 on th e oil s lick on Lebanes e shores ,

Reaffirm ing the o utcome o f the Un ited Nati ons Conf erence o n the Hu man

Envi ronment, espec ially p rincipl e 7 o f the Declara tion o f the Confere nce,

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in which

Stat es were requeste d to tak e all po ssible s teps to prevent pollutio n of the sea s,

Emph asiz ing th e need to p rotect and pre serve the mar ine en vironme nt in

acco rdance with inte rnation al law,

Taking into acco unt the 1 992 Rio De claratio n on Envir onment an d

Deve lop ment ,

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espe cially prin ciple 16, in which it was sti pulated that the po lluter

should , in princi ple, bear the cost o f pollutio n, and taki ng into a ccount also chapter 1 7

of Age nda 21,

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Noti ng with great con cern th e enviro nmenta l disast er cause d by the destruc tion

by t he Israe li Air Fo rce on 15 July 2006 o f the oi l storag e tanks in the direct vicinity

of th e Jiyah e lectric power pl ant in L ebanon, resultin g in an o il slick that cov ered the

entir ety of the Leba nese coas tline, exte nded to the Syri an coastli ne and hinder ed

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See Rep ort of the Un ited N ations Confere nce on the H uman E nvironm ent, St ockhol m, 5 –16 Ju ne

1972 (A/ CON F.48/1 4/R ev.1) , part one, c hap. I.

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Report of the United Natio ns Con ference on En vironme nt and Devel opment, Rio d e Jane iro,

3−14 June 1992, vol. I, Resol utions Adopte d by t he Conf erence (Unit ed Nati ons pu blicati on,

Sale s No. E.93.I. 8 and corrige ndum), resol ution 1 , anne x I.

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Ibid., a nnex I I.