28 July 1988

40th plenary meeting

Global convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes

The Economic and Social Council,

Noting the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts with a Mandate to Prepare a Global Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, convened by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme pursuant to Governing Council decision 14/30 of 17 June 1987, and that the draft of the convention will be submitted to a diplomatic conference for adoption by Governments in Basel, Switzerland, in early 1989,

1. Stresses the importance of the active participation of all Governments in the preparatory work for the global convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes, with a view to its speedy and successful completion;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session on developments in regard to the convention.