United Nations A/RES/77/104
General Assembly Distr.: General
19 December 2022
22-28250 (E) 221222
*2228250*
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 77
Report of the International Law Commission on the work
of its seventy-third session
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2022
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/77/415, para. 12)]
77/104. Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts
The General Assembly,
Having considered chapter V of the report of the International Law Commission

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PROTECTION OF PERSONS IN THE EVENT OF DISASTERS
[Agenda item 8]
DOCUMENT A/CN.4/615*
Second report on the protection of persons in the event of disasters,
by Mr. Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Special Rapporteur
[Original: English]
[7 May 2009]
* Incorporating A/CN.4/614/Corr.1.
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Multilateral instruments cited in the present report ......................................................................................................................................... 187

Annex II
PROTECTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE
(Shinya Murase)
I. Introduction
1. The atmosphere (air mass), mostly existing in the
troposphere and stratosphere, is the planet’s largest single
natural resource, and it is indispensable for the survival
ohumankind. Degradation oatmospheric conditions
has long been a matter oserious concern to the international

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No. 14668
MULTILATERAL
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Nations on 19 December 1966
Optional Protocol to the above-mentioned Covenant.
Adopted by the General Assembly of the United
Authentic texts: English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Registered on 23 March 1976.
MULTILATERAL
Adopté par l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies le
19 décembre 1966
Protocole facultatif se rapportant au Pacte susmentionné.
Adopté par l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies le
19 décembre 1966

an
nexes, procès-Con
cluded Registered on 16 November 1994.
MULTILATERAL
Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer (avec
annexes, acte final et procès-verbaux de rectification de
l'acte final en date des 3 mars 1986 et 26 juillet 1993).
Conclue à Montego Bay le 10 décembre 1982
français, Enregistrée d'office le 16 novembre 1994.
Vol. 1833, 1-31363
No. 31363
MULTILATERAL
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (with annexes,
final act and proc~s-verbaux of rectification of the