AG/RES. 1450 (XXVII-O/97)

SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

(Resolution adopted at the sixth plenary session, held on June 4, 1997)

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING SEEN the report of the Permanent Council on implementation of resolution AG/RES. 1370 (XXVI-O/96), "Summit Conference on Sustainable Development" (AG/doc.3483/97);

BEARING IN MIND that, on December 7, 1996, the Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra was signed and the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas was adopted;

RECALLING that the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas entrusted to the Organization of American States the role of coordinating and implementing the decisions taken by the heads of state and government and their representatives at the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development; and

CONSIDERING that, through resolution AG/RES. 1370 (XXVI-O/96), it requested the Permanent Council to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh regular session on the implementation of said resolution,

RESOLVES:

1. To thank and congratulate the Government of Bolivia, through His Excellency Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozado, President of the Republic of Bolivia, for holding the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra on December 7 and 8, 1996.

2. To consider that the work of the Working Group on OAS Cooperation regarding the Summit Conference on Sustainable Development has been completed and, at the same time, to thank and congratulate Ambassador Carlos Casap, Permanent Representative of Bolivia and Chair of the Working Group, for his excellent handling of the preparatory work for the Summit.

3. To urge the governments of the member states that have not done so to sign the Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and the Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of the Americas.