United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/56/216
Distr.: General
14 February 2002
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 21 (i)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.66 and Add.1 and A/56/L.67)]
56/216. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
The General Assembly,
Recalling the framework for cooperation and coordination between the United
Nations and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which was
signed on 26 May 1993, 1 as well as its resolutions on cooperation between the two
organizations,
Recalling also the principles embodied in the Helsinki Final Act and in the
declaration at the 1992 Helsinki Summit by the heads of State or Government of the
participating States of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe of
their understanding that the Conference is a regional arrangement in the sense of
Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations and as such provides an important
link between European and global security, 2
Acknowledging the increasing contribution of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe to the establishment and maintenance of international
peace and security in its region through activities in early warning and preventive
diplomacy, including through the activities of the High Commissioner on National
Minorities, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, as well as arms
control and disarmament,
Recalling the Charter for European Security adopted at the Summit in Istanbul,
Turkey, in November 1999, which reaffirms the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe as a primary organization for the peaceful settlement of
disputes within its region and as a key instrument for early warning, conflict
prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation,
Recalling also the special ties between the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and the Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation, as well as
between that organization and the Asian Partners for Cooperation, Japan, the
Republic of Korea and Thailand, which have been enhanced further in 2001,
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A/48/185, annex II, appendix.
See A/47/361-S/24370, annex.