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AG/RES. 1584 (XXVIII-O/98)
SPECIAL PROGRAM OF SUPPORT TO COUNTRIES AFFECTED BY "EL NIŅO"
(Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 2, 1998)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN:
The Charter of the Organization of American States, in particular Articles 93, 94, and 95, and the Statutes of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) [AG/RES. 1443 (XXVI-O/96)]; and
The Declaration of Santiago adopted at the Second Summit of the Americas; the Strategic Plan for Partnership for Development 1997-2001; CIDI/RES. 11 (II-O/97), "Inter-American Program for Sustainable Development and Follow-up to the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development"; the Declaration and Strategic Plan of Action of Miami on Disaster Reduction and Sustainable Development; and resolutions CP/RES. 546 (834/90) and CP/RES. 593 (922/92);
CONSIDERING:
That the cyclical southern oscillation phenomenon known as El Niņo has had profound and disastrous effects on the Americas, causing significant human, material, economic, and environmental loss, whose impact could continue for several years, seriously affecting the economic and social development of the member states; and
That national efforts in the affected countries require increased international cooperation and partnership to forecast the phenomenon and thereby mitigate its negative social, economic, and environmental effects; and
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the efforts of the United Nations to deal with this problem in the context of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, in particular through resolution A/RES/52/200, "International Cooperation to Reduce the Impact of the El Niņo Phenomenon,"
RESOLVES:
1. To urge the member states and the organs and agencies of the inter-American system, in particular the Inter-American Development Bank, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, and the Pan American Health Organization, as well as nongovernmental organizations pursuing similar aims, to intensify, within the framework of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, their cooperation with efforts aimed at preventing, reducing, and repairing the effects of El Niņo.
2. To instruct the Secretary General to conduct a study assessing the capacity of the Organization to prevent, reduce, and repair the effects of El Niņo, taking into account the comparative advantages of the Organization and United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/52/200.
3. To instruct the Permanent Executive Committee of CIDI (CEPCIDI) to develop an appropriate response to El Niņo when the study, and examination of it, have been completed, and, in furtherance of the Second Summit of the Americas mandate to exchange information about the El Niņo phenomenon, to consider the advisability of convening, during the first half of 1999, an intergovernmental meeting of experts to contribute to defining this response.
4. To instruct the General Secretariat to present the conclusions and recommendations of the study to the intergovernmental meeting of experts that will be held in the United Nations framework.
5. To instruct the Secretary General to identify means of securing external resources, in addition to the ordinary resources of the Organization, that could further the development and implementation of this response.
6. To instruct CEPCIDI to report to CIDI at its Fourth Regular Meeting on the implementation of this resolution.
