A/RES/71/16
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 December 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 126 (i)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 November 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.14)]
71/16.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Economic Cooperation Organization
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/2 of 13 October 1993, by which it granted observer
status to the Economic Cooperation Organization,
Recalling also its previous resolutions on cooperation between the United
Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization in which it invited various
specialized agencies, as well as other organizations and programmes of the United
Nations system and relevant financial institutions, to join in t he efforts towards
realizing its goals and the objectives of the Economic Cooperation Organization,
Appreciating the efforts of the Economic Cooperation Organization to
strengthen its relations with the United Nations system and with relevant
international and regional organizations for the development and implementation of
projects and programmes in areas of common interest,
Noting the efforts made by the United Nations system and the relevant
international and regional organizations in extending technical and financial
assistance to the Economic Cooperation Organization for the development and
implementation of programmes and projects pertaining to socioeconomic progress,
and encouraging them to continue their support,
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on
the implementation of resolution 69/111 of 10 December 2014, 1 and acknowledges
the growing cooperation between the two organizations;
2.
Takes note of the Baku Declaration, issued at the twelfth Economic
Cooperation Organization summit meeting of Heads of State and/or Govern ment of
the States members of the Economic Cooperation Organization, held in Baku on
16 October 2012; 2
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See A/71/160-S/2016/621, sect. II.
A/67/581, annex.
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