(2017-07) The New United Nations Approach to Cholera in Haiti (A/71/L.78)

United Nations • 2017 • 3 pages

Summary — General Assembly draft resolution endorsing the new United Nations approach to cholera in Haiti, recognizing the Organization's moral responsibility to victims and inviting voluntary contributions to the multi-partner trust fund.

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Key Findings

The General Assembly text reiterates grave concern that cholera outbreaks in Haiti have affected more than 800,000 people and caused over 9,000 deaths. It recognizes that the United Nations bears a moral responsibility to the victims and their families and to supporting Haiti in building sound water, sanitation and health systems. It reaffirms support for the new United Nations approach and the Haiti Cholera Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund and invites voluntary redirection of Member States' shares of the unencumbered MINUSTAH balance for 2015/16. It requests a comprehensive implementation report, including the status of the Trust Fund, at the seventy-second session.

Full Description

This draft resolution, sponsored by Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago under agenda item 69 (c) of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, addresses the cholera epidemic that has affected more than 800,000 people and caused over 9,000 deaths in Haiti since 2010. It recognizes that the United Nations bears a moral responsibility to the victims of the epidemic and their families and to supporting Haiti in overcoming cholera and building sound water, sanitation and health systems. The text reaffirms support for the new United Nations approach to cholera in Haiti, including the United Nations Haiti Cholera Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund, welcomes contributions already made and invites further voluntary support from Member States, donors and the private sector. It welcomes the Secretary-General's intention to invite Member States to voluntarily redirect their share of the unencumbered MINUSTAH balance for the 2015/16 period to the Trust Fund, requests rigorous completion of the liquidation of MINUSTAH assets with their potential use for the cholera response in mind, and asks for a comprehensive implementation report at the seventy-second session.

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Time Coverage

2010-10 — 2017-07

Keywords

A/71/L.78, General Assembly, cholera, new approach, moral responsibility, Multi-Partner Trust Fund, MINUSTAH liquidation, water and sanitation, oral cholera vaccination, Haiti

Entities

United Nations General Assembly, Secretary-General, Government of Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, United Nations Haiti Cholera Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund, MINUSTAH, World Health Organization

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