Selected Documents

Issue title: UN General Assembly and UNEP

Article type: Research Article

Abstract: UN/GA: Resolutions • Observer Status for the International Seabed Authority in the General Assembly 112 • Observer Status for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the General Assembly 112 • Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union 113 • Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency 113 • Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic 114 • Law of the Sea 115 • Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks 116 • Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing; unauthorised fishing in zones of national jurisdiction; and fisheries by-catch and discards 116 • Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace 117 • Question of Antarctica 117 • International Decade of the World's Indigenous People 118 • Declaration on International Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for the Benefit and in the Interest of All States, Taking into Particular Account the Needs of Developing Countries 119 • Annex (of above) 119 • International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space 119 • United Nations Decade of International Law 121 • Annex: Programme for the activities for the final term (1997–1999) of the United Nations Decade of International Law 122 • Electronic treaties database 123 • 1999 Action Dedicated to the Centennial of the First International Peace Conference and to the Closing of the United Nations Decade of International Law 123 • Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session 124 • Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its twenty-ninth session 125 • International trade and development 125 • Elaboration of an International Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 127 • Special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21 128 • Convention on biological diversity 129 • Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States 129 • Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind 130 • International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction 131 • Application of the Principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in International Cooperation on the Environment 132 • Institutional Arrangements for the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities 132 • Convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses 133 • Annex: Methods of work and procedures 133 • Establishment of an international criminal court 133 UNEP • Report of the Working Group of Experts on Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage Arising from Military Activities 134 • Observations and Recommendations regarding the Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law for the 1990s 142 UNEP/GC: Decisions • Oceans management 146 • Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities 146 • The efforts of the United Nations Environment Programme toward the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification particularly in Africa: 1995–1996 146 • International action to protect human health and the environment through measures which will reduce and/or eliminate emissions and discharges of persistent organic pollutants, including the development of an international legally binding instrument 147 • Annex of above 148 • Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States 148 • Development of an international legally binding instrument for the application of prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade 149 • Improvement of the international response to environmental emergencies 149 • Enhanced coherence and efficiency among international activities related to the chemicals 149 • Further measures to reduce the risks from a limited number of hazardous chemicals 150 • Mid-term review of the Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law for the 1990s and further development of international environmental law aiming at sustainable development 150 • Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) on the Environment Fund budgets: revised proposals for 1996–1997 and proposals for 1998–1999 151 • Annex of above 151 • Management of trust funds 153 • Management issues and the cost of administering trust funds 153 • Prevention of waste, fraud and mismanagement 154 • The Mercure satellite communications system 154 • Ensuring adequate and predictable funding for the United Nations Environment Programme 154 • Contribution of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme to the special session of the General Assembly in 1997 155 • The reform of the United Nations Environment Programme 155 • Globalization and the environment: emerging issues on the environment and trade agenda 155 • United Nations system-wide strategy in the field of the environment for the period 1998–2002 156 • Coordination of convention secretariats 156 • Global assessment 156 Biosafety 157 • Views expressed in the Committee of the Whole, Chairman's summary 157 • Governance of the United Nations Environment Programme 158 • Assessment of the functioning of the secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme 159 WTO • Singapore Statement on NGO-WTO Relations 159 EU • Draft Maastricht Treaty – Excerpts 160

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-1997-27206

Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 112-161, 1997