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transport, chemicals, waste management, mining and a ten-year framework of
programmes on sustainable consumption and production patterns;
43. Notes with appreciation, in this context, the efforts of the Mountain
Partnership to cooperate with existing multilateral instruments relevant to
mountains, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity,6 the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa,7 the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change,5 the International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction and mountain-related regional instruments such as the Convention on the
Protection of the Alps9 and the Framework Convention on the Protection and
Sustainable Development of the Carpathians;12
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44. Also notes with appreciation the ongoing efforts to improve strategic
cooperation among the institutions and initiatives dealing with mountain
development, such as the Mountain Forum, the Mountain Partnership, the Mountain
Research Initiative and the International Mountain Society;
45. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its
sixty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution under the
sub-item entitled “Sustainable mountain development” of the item entitled
“Sustainable development”.
66th plenary meeting
21 December 2009
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