A/RES/62/196 United Nations Distr.: General 22 February 2008 General Assembly Sixty-second session Agenda item 54 (h) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2007 [on the report of the Second Committee (A/62/419/Add.8)] 62/196. Sustainable mountain development The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 53/24 of 10 November 1998, by which it proclaimed 2002 the International Year of Mountains, Recalling also its resolutions 55/189 of 20 December 2000, 57/245 of 20 December 2002, 58/216 of 23 December 2003 and 60/198 of 22 December 2005, Reaffirming chapter 13 of Agenda 21 1 and all relevant paragraphs of the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 2 in particular paragraph 42 thereof, as the overall policy frameworks for sustainable development in mountain regions, 0F 1F Noting the Bishkek Mountain Platform, 3 the outcome document of the Bishkek Global Mountain Summit, held in Bishkek from 28 October to 1 November 2002, which was the concluding event of the International Year of Mountains, 2F Noting also the International Partnership for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions (“Mountain Partnership”), launched during the World Summit on Sustainable Development, with benefits from the committed support of forty-eight countries, fifteen intergovernmental organizations and eighty-three organizations from major groups, as an important approach to addressing the various interrelated dimensions of sustainable development in mountain regions, Noting further the conclusions of the global meetings of the members of the Mountain Partnership, held, respectively, in Merano, Italy, in October 2003 and in Cusco, Peru, in October 2004, and the first Andean Meeting of the Andean Initiative, held in San Miguel Tucuman, Argentina, in September 2007, _______________ 1 Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992, vol. I, Resolutions Adopted by the Conference (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II. 2 Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August– 4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I, resolution 2, annex. 3 A/C.2/57/7, annex. 07-47553