A/RES/72/278
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 May 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 126
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 May 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.54 and A/72/L.54/Add.1)]
72/278.
Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments
and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
The General Assembly,
Recalling the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 1 in which Heads of State and
Government resolved to strengthen further cooperation between the United Nations
and national parliaments through their world organization, the Inter-Parliamentary
Union, in all fields of the work of the United Nations,
Recalling also its resolution 57/32 of 19 November 2002, in which the InterParliamentary Union was invited to participate in the work of the General Assembly
in the capacity of observer, and recalling further its resolution 70/298 of 25 July 2016,
in which the Assembly, inter alia, decided to strengthen the modalities of the
cooperation between United Nations entities and the global parliamentary
community,
Taking into consideration the Cooperation Agreement between the United
Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union of 1996, 2 which laid the foundation for
cooperation between the two organizations, and taking note of the revised
Cooperation Agreement of 2016,
Taking note of the resolutions adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in
particular the resolution entitled “Sharing our diversity: the twentieth anniversary of
the Universal Declaration on Democracy”, adopted at the 137th Assembly of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, held in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, from 14 to
18 October 2017, and the many activities undertaken by that organization in support
of the United Nations,
Noting the outcomes of the World Conferences of Speakers of Parliament held
in 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015, which affirm the commitment of national parliaments
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Resolution 60/1.
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