United Nations
A/RES/63/127
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2009
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 78
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2008
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/63/442)]
63/127. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the
United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of
the Organization
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 3499 (XXX) of 15 December 1975, by which it
established the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the
Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, and its relevant resolutions adopted
at subsequent sessions,
Recalling also its resolution 47/233 of 17 August 1993 on the revitalization of
the work of the General Assembly,
Recalling further its resolution 47/62 of 11 December 1992 on the question of
equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council,
Taking note of the report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of
Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security
Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council, 1
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Recalling the elements relevant to the work of the Special Committee
contained in its resolution 47/120 B of 20 September 1993,
Recalling also its resolution 51/241 of 31 July 1997 on the strengthening of
the United Nations system and its resolution 51/242 of 15 September 1997, entitled
“Supplement to an Agenda for Peace”, by which it adopted the texts on coordination
and the question of sanctions imposed by the United Nations, which are annexed to
that resolution,
Concerned about the special economic problems confronting certain States
arising from the carrying out of preventive or enforcement measures taken by the
Security Council against other States, and taking into account the obligation of
Members of the United Nations under Article 49 of the Charter of the United
Nations to join in affording mutual assistance in carrying out the measures decided
upon by the Council,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 47 (A/62/47).