United Nations
A/RES/65/173
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 January 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 24
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2010
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/65/440)]
65/173. Promotion of ecotourism for poverty eradication and
environment protection
The General Assembly,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1
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Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2 the Monterrey
Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 3 the Rio
Declaration on Environment and Development, 4 the Plan of Implementation of the
World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 5
the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development: outcome document of the
Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the
Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, 6 the Outcome of the Conference on
the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development 7 and the
outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on
the Millennium Development Goals, 8
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Recalling further its resolution 53/200 of 15 December 1998 entitled
“Proclamation of 2002 as the International Year of Ecotourism”,
Stressing that poverty is a multifaceted problem that requires a multifaceted
and integrated approach in addressing its economic, political, social, environmental
and institutional dimensions at all levels,
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See resolution 60/1.
See resolution 55/2.
3
Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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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 I.
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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.
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Resolution 63/239, annex.
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Resolution 63/303, annex.
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See resolution 65/1.
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