A/RES/59/19 Taking note of the recommendations contained in the report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations 4 in regard to engaging parliamentarians more systematically in the work of the United Nations, 1. Welcomes the efforts made by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to provide for a greater parliamentary contribution and enhanced support to the United Nations; Welcomes with satisfaction the decision to convene the second World 2. Conference of Speakers of Parliament at United Nations Headquarters in September 2005, in follow-up to the first such conference held in New York in 2000 in conjunction with the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations; Calls upon the host country to extend the usual courtesies to participants 3. of all parliamentary delegations of States Members of the United Nations at the second World Conference of Speakers of Parliament; Takes note of the efforts of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to consult 4. parliaments on the recommendations contained in the report of the Panel of Eminent Persons4 in regard to engaging parliamentarians more systematically in the work of the United Nations, and looks forward to learning of the outcome of this process as a contribution to the deliberations of the General Assembly prior to a final decision on the recommendations of the Panel in regard to parliamentarians; Encourages the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to 5. continue to cooperate closely in various fields, in particular peace and security, economic and social development, international law, human rights, and democracy and gender issues, bearing in mind the significant benefits of cooperation between the two organizations, to which the report of the Secretary-General attests;1 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”. 50th plenary meeting 8 November 2004 _______________ 4 2 See A/58/817 and Corr.1.