* [United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/S-19/2 was adopted on June 28, 1997, without a vote.

[The four UNCED documents reproduced in I.L.M. are the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 31 I.L.M. 874 (1992); the Framework Convention on Climate Change, 31 I.L.M. 849 (1992); the Convention on Biological Diversity, 31 I.L.M. 818 (1992); and the Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus of the Management, Conservation and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests, 31 I.L.M. 881 (1992). The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), of December 10, 1982, appears at 21 I.L.M. 1261 (1982); the United Nations Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the UNCLOS, of July 28, 1994, appears at 33 I.L.M. 1309 (1994); the Declaration and Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Sept. 1995, can be found at 35 I.L.M. 401 (1996); the Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, done at Marrakesh on April 15, 1994, are reproduced at 33 I.L.M. 1125 (1994); the World Trade Organization Plan of Action for the Least Developed Countries, adopted at Singapore in December 1996, appears at 36 I.L.M. 218 (1997); Decisions of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on its first session, of March 28 to April 7, 1995, appear at 34 I.L.M. 1671 (1995); and the Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa, of January 29, 1991, appears at 30 I.L.M. 773 (1991).]

1 Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Rio de Jane (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigendum), resolution 1, annex II.

2 Ibid., annex I.

3 Ibid., annex III (Non-legally Binding Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Management, Conservation, and Sustainable Development for All Types of Forests)

4 As provided in Agenda 21, the term “Governments”, when used therein, will be deemed to include as well the European Economic Community (now the European Union) within its area of competence.

5 All references in the present document to the platforms for or programmes of action of major conferences should be considered in a manner consistent with the reports of those conferences.

6 Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1997.

7 A/AC.237/18 (Part II)/Add.1 and Corr.1, annex I.

8 United Nations Environment Programme, Convention on Biological Diversity (Environmental Law and Institution Programme Activity Centre), June 1992. [31 I.L.M. 818 (1992)]

9 A/49/84/Add.2, annex, appendix II.

10 A/CONF. 164/37; see also A/50/550, annex I.

11 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. Bridgetown. Barbados. 25 April-6 May 1994 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

12 A/51/116, annex II.

13 Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, vol. XVII (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.84.V.3), document A/CONF.62/122.

14 Report of the World Summit for Social Development. Copenhagen. 6-12 March 1995 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.

15 Ibid., resolution 1, annex II.

16 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women. Beijing. 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. [35 I.L.M 401 (1996)]

17 See E/CN.17/1997/19, annex, appendix.

18 See Legal Instruments Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (GATT secretariat publication. Sales No. GATT/1994-7), vol. I. [33 I.L.M. 1125 (1994)]

19 Adopted by the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization he at Singapore in December 1996 (WT/MIN(96)/14). [36 I.L.M. 218 (1997)]

20 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development. Cairo. 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication. Sales No. E.95.XIII.18)

21 See World Health Organization, Health Care: Report of the International Conference on Primary Health Care. Alma-Ata. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 6-12 September 1978 (Geneva, 1978).

22 Report of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat III. Istanbul. 3-14 June 1996 (A/CONF.165/14), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II

23 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. 1996. Supplement No. 8 (E/1996/28), chap. I, sect. C, decision 4/15, para. 45 (a).

24 E/CN.17/1997/12.

25 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. 1997. Supplement No. 9 (E/1997/29)

26 FCCC/CP/1995/7/Add.1, sect. I, decision 1/CP.1.

27 Report of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on its second session, Geneva. 8-19 July 1996 (FCCC/CP/1996/15/Add.1), annex. [34 I.L.M. 1671 (1995)]

28 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1522-, No. 26369.

29 Official Records of the General Assembly. Fifty-second Session. Supplement No. 25 (A/52/25), annex, decision 19/13.

30 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1673, No. 28911 (forthcoming).

31 Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Trans boundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa, International Legal Materials, vol. 30, No. 3 (May 1991), p. 775, and vol. 31, No. 1 (January 1992), p. 164. [30 I.L.M. 773 (1991)]

32 See The Courier Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-European Community. No. 120 (March- April 1990)

33 Where “management'1 appears in the section on radioactive wastes, it is defined as handling, treatment, storage, transportation, including trans boundary movement, and final disposal of such wastes

34 Report of the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 3—14 November 1996 (UNEP/CBD/COP/3/38), annex II.

35 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Report of the World Food Summit. Rome. 13-17 November 1996. Part One (WFS 96/REP) (Rome, 1997), appendix

36 Report of the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 3-14 November 1996 (UKEP/CBD/COP/3/38), annex II, decision III/12

37 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. 1997. Supplement No. 9 (E/1997/29), chap. I, resolution 5/1, para. 6.

38 See A/CONF. 172/9 and Add.1.

39 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. 1996. Supplement No. 8 (E/1996/28), chap. I, sect. C, decision 4/11.

40 Official Records of the General No. 25 (A/52/25), annex, decision 19/1, annex.

41 Ibid., Supplement No. 25 (A/52/2S), annex