A/RES/74/77
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 103
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the
Mediterranean region
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 December 2019
[on the report of the First Committee (A/74/373)]
74/77.
Strengthening of security and cooperation
in the Mediterranean region
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, including resolution 73/85 of
5 December 2018,
Reaffirming the primary role of the Mediterranean countries in strengthening
and promoting peace, security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region,
Welcoming the efforts deployed by the Euro-Mediterranean countries to
strengthen their cooperation in combating terrorism, in particular through the
adoption of the Euro-Mediterranean Code of Conduct on Countering Terrorism by the
Euro-Mediterranean Summit, held in Barcelona, Spain, on 27 and 28 November 2005,
Bearing in mind all the previous declarations and commitments, as well as all
the initiatives taken by the riparian countries at the recent summits, ministerial
meetings and various forums concerning the question of the Mediterranean region,
Recalling, in this regard, the adoption on 13 July 2008 of the Joint Declaration
of the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean, which launched a reinforced partnership,
named the “Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean”, and the common
political will to revive efforts to transform the Mediterranean into an area of peace,
democracy, cooperation and prosperity,
Welcoming the entry into force of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
(Treaty of Pelindaba) 1 as a contribution to the strengthening of peace and security
both regionally and internationally,
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