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Cooperation between the United Nations and the
International Organization of la Francophonie
organizations aimed at intensifying their technical cooperation efforts for the benefit
of their members;
45. Expresses its gratitude to the International Organization of la
Francophonie for the steps it has taken in recent years to promote cultural and
linguistic diversity and dialogue between cultures and civilizations, refers to the
Yerevan Call on Living Together, endorsed by the Heads of State and Government of
countries using French as a common language at the seventeenth Summit of la
Francophonie as a document to set forth the principles of living together for the
francophone countries and to guide their collective efforts toward enhanced
cooperation, solidarity, dialogue and tolerance, and encourages the United Nations
and the International Organization of la Francophonie to cooperate more closely to
ensure full respect for provisions on multilingualism;
46. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
and the Secretary-General of la Francophonie for their sustained efforts to strengthen
cooperation and coordination between the two organizations, thereby serving their
mutual interests in the political, economic, social, cultural and environmental fields,
in particular in the framework of the joint activities carried out by the International
Organization of la Francophonie with the United Nations Environment Programme
and with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as
well as in the context of developing exchanges between the International Organization
of la Francophonie and United Nations Volunteers;
47. Welcomes the involvement of the countries that use French as a common
language, particularly through the International Organization of la Francophonie, in
the preparation for, conduct of and follow-up to international conferences organized
under the auspices of the United Nations, as witnessed at the Third World Conference
on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Sendai, Japan, from 14 to 18 March 2015, the
eleventh session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, held in New York from 4 to
15 May 2015, the Third International Conference on Financing for De velopment, held
in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, the United Nations summit for the adoption
of the post-2015 development agenda, held in New York from 25 to 27 September
2015, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United N ations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Paris from 30 November to
11 December 2015, the first World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul, Turkey,
on 23 and 24 May 2016, the Comprehensive High-level Midterm Review of the
Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed
Countries for the Decade 2011–2020, held in Antalya, Turkey, from 27 to 29 May
2016, the high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and
migrants, held in New York on 19 September 2016, the United Nations Conference
on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in Quito from
17 to 20 October 2016, and the twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Marrakech,
Morocco, from 7 to 18 November 2016;
48. Also welcomes the high-level meetings held periodically between the
Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of la
Francophonie, and requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, acting in
cooperation with the Secretary-General of la Francophonie, to encourage the holding
of periodic meetings between their representatives as well as with the Group of
Francophone Ambassadors at United Nations Headquarter s in order to promote the
exchange of information, coordination of activities and identification of new areas of
cooperation through the use of the French language as a vector for development;
49. Further welcomes the participation of the Secretary-General of la
Francophonie in the high-level interactive dialogue organized by the Secretary10/11
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