A/RES/59/21 United Nations Distr.: General 19 January 2005 General Assembly Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 56 (t) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 November 2004 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.14)] 59/21. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 54/10 of 26 October 1999, by which it granted observer status to the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and considered it mutually advantageous to provide for cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, Recalling also the Articles of the Charter of the United Nations that encourage activities through regional cooperation for the promotion of the purposes and principles of the United Nations, Considering that the activities of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries complement and support the work of the United Nations, Welcoming the participation of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries in the fifth high-level meeting between the United Nations and regional organizations, held in New York on 29 and 30 July 2003, Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to undertake 1. consultations with the Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguesespeaking Countries, with a view to promoting cooperation between the secretariats of the two bodies, in particular by encouraging meetings that enable their representatives to consult one another on projects, measures and procedures that will facilitate and expand their mutual cooperation and coordination; Requests the specialized agencies and other bodies and programmes of 2. the United Nations system to cooperate to this end with the Secretary-General and the Executive Secretary; Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation 3. of the present resolution to the General Assembly at its sixty-first session; 4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries”. 50th plenary meeting 8 November 2004 04-47746