A/RES/75/124. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2020

• Resolution Number: A/RES/75/124
• Year: 2020
• Session: 75th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES/75/ 124

General Assembly

Distr.: Gen eral

21 Decem ber 2020

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Seventy -fifth session

Agenda i tem 73 (a)

Strength ening of the c oordination of humanitarian and

disaste r relief assista nce of the Uni ted Nations,

includi ng special eco nomic assistan ce: strengthe ning of

the coor dination of e mergency humanitarian assistance

of the U nited Nations

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 11 December 2020

[without referenc e to a Main Committe e (A/75/L.11 and A/75/L.11/Add.1)]

75/124. Internationa l cooperation on humanitarian a ssistance in the fi eld

of natural di sasters, from relief to dev elopme nt

The Gene ral Assembly,

Reaffirm ing its resolution 46/182 of 1 9 Decem ber 19 91, the annex to which

contains the guiding prin ciples for the strengthe ning of the coordination of emergency

humanita rian assistance of the United Nations system, as well as al l its resolutions o n

internat ional cooperat ion on humani tarian assi stance in the field of nat ural disasters ,

from relief to develop ment, and reca lling the resolut ions of the humanit arian

segments of the substan tive sessions of the Economic and Social Cou ncil,

Reaffirm ing a lso t he pri nciples of human ity, neutral ity, i mpartiality and

independ ence for the pr ovision of hum anitarian assis tance,

Recalling the Sendai Decla ration

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and t he Sendai Fr amework for D isaster Risk

Reductio n 2015–2030,

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ad opted by the Thi rd United Nations World Conference on

Disaster Risk Reducti on, held in Sen dai, Japan, fr om 14 to 18 March 2015,

Recognizing that the Sendai Framework applies to the risk of small-s cale and

large-sca le, frequent an d infrequent, sudden and slow-o nset disasters caused by

natural or man-made hazards , as well as related environmenta l, tec hnological and

biologic al hazards and risks,

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Resolution 69/283, annex I .

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Ibid., an nex II.

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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of

natural disasters, from relief to development

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Noting with conc ern that slow-onset disasters such as droughts a re on th e rise

in many places and can have s ignificant i mpacts on aff ected populati ons and lea d to

increase d vulnerability to other ha zards,

Recognizing the Gl obal Platform for Di saster Risk Reduct ion as the main forum

at the global level for strateg ic advice co ordination and partnership development f or

disaster risk reductio n, and recogni zing also the contribution of the relev ant regional

and subr egional platfor ms,

Reaffirm ing the Pari s Agreement

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and its early entr y into force, and encoura ging

all th e parties t o the Agreemen t to fully implement t he Agreement an d parties t o the

United Nat ions Framework Con vention on Climate C hange

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that have not yet done so

to depo sit their in struments of ratification, accept ance, approval or accessio n, where

appropri ate, as soon as possible,

Highligh ting th e synergies bet ween the implem entation of the 2030 Agenda for

Sustaina ble Development

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and the Paris Agreement, and noting with concer n th e

findings contained in t he Special Report on Glob al Warming of 1.5°C of th e

Intergove rnmental Panel on Climate Ch ange,

Noting wi th appreciation th e hosting by the Gove rnment of Poland of the

twenty- fourth sess ion of the Conferenc e of t he Parties to t he United Natio ns

Framewor k Convention on Cl imate Change, the fourteenth sessi on of the Confere nce

of the Parti es serving as the Mee ting of the Parties to the Kyoto Pr otocol and the third

part of t he first sessio n of the Conferen ce of the Partie s serving as the Meeting of the

Parties to the Par is Agreement , held in Katowice , Poland, from 2 t o 15 December

2018, and noting with appr eciation also the conve ning by th e Government of Chile,

with the assistan ce of the Government of Sp ain, of the twenty-f ifth ses sion of the

Conferen ce of t he Parties, the fifteent h s ession of the Conference of th e P arties

serving as the Meeting o f the Parties to the Kyoto P rotocol and the second session of

the Confere nce of the Parties serving as the Meet ing of the Parties to the Paris

Agreemen t, in Madrid fr om 2 to 13 Dec ember 2019,

Welcoming the holding of the 2019 Climate A ction S ummit co nvened by the

Secretar y-General on 23 S eptember, and taking note of the mult i-partner initiatives

and comm itments present ed during the Summit,

Noting with appreciat ion the h osting by the Governme nt of Switz erland of t he

sixth sessi on of the Global Platform fo r Disaste r Risk Reduct ion, held in Geneva from

13 to 17 May 2019,

Taking note of its resolution 71/1 of 1 9 September 2016, in which the General

Assembly adop ted t he Ne w York Declaration for Refug ees a nd Mi grants and the

annexes thereto,

Welcoming the convenin g of the intergovern mental conf erence held on 10 and

11 Decem ber 2018 in Marrakech , Morocco, and recall ing that i t adopted the Global

Compact for Safe, Orderl y and Regu lar M igration, also known as the Marrakec h

Compact on Migration,

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Emphasiz ing the f undamentally civilian characte r of human itarian assistance,

reaffirmi ng, in situations in whic h militar y capacity and assets are used as a last reso rt

to support t he implementatio n of humanit arian assistance in the field of natur al

disaster s, the need for their use to be undertak en with the consent of th e affected St ate

and in confo rmity with internat ional law, including inte rnational humani tarian law, as

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See FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, de cision 1 /CP.21, annex.

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United Na tions, Treaty Seri es, vol. 1771, No. 30822.

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Resolution 70/1.

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Resolution 73/195, annex.