A/RES/73/339
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 September 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 128 (r)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 12 September 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.111 and A/73/L.111/Add.1)]
73/339.
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, as well as its resolutions 59/21 of 8 November 2004, 61/223 of
20 December 2006, 63/143 of 11 December 2008, 65/139 of 16 December 2010,
67/252 of 26 March 2013, 69/311 of 6 July 2015 and 71/324 of 8 September 2017,
Recalling also the Articles of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular of
Chapter VIII, that encourage activities through regional cooperation for the
promotion of the purposes and principles of the United Nations, and Security Council
resolution 2457 (2019) of 27 February 2019 on cooperation between the United
Nations and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international
peace and security: silencing the guns in Africa,
Considering that the activities of the Community of Portuguese-speaking
Countries complement and support the work of the United Nations, and taking into
account in that regard the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the
United Nations and regional and other organizations of 17 August 2018, 1
Considering also the relevance of the Portuguese language in international
affairs, unifying over 278 million people in nine countries and four continents, and
noting the political commitment of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries
to promote the Portuguese language in international and regional organizations,
including the United Nations and its specialized agencies, funds and programmes,
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