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V - Agreement between the United Nations and the Republic of Kenya regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2013

Bharat H. Desai
Affiliation:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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The United Nations and the Republic of Kenya

Considering that the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, has established institutional and financial arrangements for the United Nations Environment Programme, and, in response to an offer by the Government of Kenya, has, by resolution 3004 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, decided that the Environment Secretariat shall be located at Nairobi;

Considering that the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 13 February 1946, to which the Republic of Kenya is a party, is ipso facto applicable to the United Nations Environment Programme;

Considering that it is desirable to conclude an agreement, complementary to the convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, to regulate questions not envisaged in that Convention arising as a result of the establishment of the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme at Nairobi;

Have agreed as follows:

Article I

Definitions

Section – 1

In this Agreement,

  1. (a) The expression “the UNEP” means the institutional and financial arrangements for the United Nations Environment Programme established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in resolution 2997 (XXVII) of 15 December 1972, and such other institutional and financial arrangements as may from time to time be made for the United Nations Environment Programme.

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Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Legal Status of the Secretariats
, pp. 231 - 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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