Resolution nº E/RES/2015/31 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. 22-07-2015

• Date: 22 July 2015
• Issuer: Economic and Social Council of the United Nation

United Nations E/RES/2015/31

Economic and Social Council Distr.: General

6 October 2015

2015 session

Agenda item 15

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Resolution adopted by the Economic and Social Council on 22 July 2015

[on the recommendation of the Economic and Social Commission

for Asia and the Pacific (E/2015/15/Add.2)]

2015/31. Establishment of the Asian and Pacific Centre for the

Development of Disaster Information Management

The Economic and Social Council

,

Noting

the adoption of resolution 71/11 by the Economic and Social

Commission for Asia and the Pacific at its seventy-first session, held in Bangkok

from 25 to 29 May 2015,

Endorses

the establishment of the Asian and Pacific Centre for the

Development of Disaster Information Management, as set out in resolution 71/11

and the annex thereto, which are annexed to the present resolution.

54th plenary meeting

22 July 2015

Annex

Resolution 71/11

Establishment of the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development

of Disaster Information Management

The

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

,

Recalling

its resolution 67/4 of 25 May 2011 and its decision taken therein to

initiate the process for the establishment of the Asian and Pacific Centre for the

Development of Disaster Information Management (the Centre) in the Islamic

Republic of Iran, and in which it invited all members and associate members to

participate actively in the process of developing the programmes of the Centre and

to support the Centre’s activities and requested the Executive Secretary to support

the process for the establishment of the Centre and to include in the secretariat’s

evaluation plan an evaluation of the activities, the need for, and benefit of,

establishing the Centre as a subsidiary body of the Commission for the development

of disaster information management,

Recalling also

its resolutions 69/12 of 1 May 2013 on enhancing regional

cooperation for building resilience to disasters in Asia and the Pacific, 70/2 of 23 May