A/RES/73/290
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 April 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 128 (j)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 April 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.81 and A/73/L.81/Add.1)]
73/290.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the International
Organization of la Francophonie
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 33/18 of 10 November 1978, 50/3 of 16 October 1995,
52/2 of 17 October 1997, 54/25 of 15 November 1999, 56/45 of 7 December 2001,
57/43 of 21 November 2002, 59/22 of 8 November 2004, 61/7 of 20 October 2006,
63/236 of 22 December 2008, 65/263 of 14 January 2011, 67/137 of 18 December
2012, 69/270 of 2 April 2015 and 71/289 of 24 May 2017, as well as its decision
53/453 of 18 December 1998,
Recalling also its resolutions 61/266 of 16 May 2007, 63/306 of 9 September
2009, 65/311 of 19 July 2011, 67/292 of 24 July 2013, 69/324 of 11 September 2015
and 71/328 of 11 September 2017 on multilingualism,
Considering that the International Organization of la Francophonie, which is
made up of 81 States Members of the United Nations, representing more than one
third of the members of the General Assembly, is promoting multilater al cooperation
in areas of common interest,
Bearing in mind the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations which
encourage the promotion of the purposes and principles of the United Nations through
regional cooperation,
Bearing in mind also that, according to the Charter of la Francophonie, adopted
on 23 November 2005 at the Ministerial Conference of la Francophonie, held in
Antananarivo, the objectives of the International Organization of la Francophonie
are to assist in the establishment and development of democracy, the prevention,
management and settlement of conflicts, support for the rule of law and for human
rights, the intensification of dialogue between cultures and civilizations, the
establishment of closer ties among peoples through mutua l knowledge, the
strengthening of their solidarity through multilateral cooperation activities with a
view to promoting the growth of their economies, and the promotion of education
and training,
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