United Nations
A/RES/59/259
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 March 2005
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 56 (d)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2004
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.57 and Add.1)]
59/259. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black
Sea Economic Cooperation Organization
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 54/5 of 8 October 1999, by which it granted observer
status to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, as well as its
resolutions 55/211 of 20 December 2000 and 57/34 of 21 November 2002, on
cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization,
Recalling also that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve
international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social or
humanitarian nature,
Recalling further 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,
Recalling its Declaration on the Enhancement of Cooperation between the
United Nations and Regional Arrangements or Agencies in the Maintenance of
International Peace and Security of 9 December 1994, 1
Pointing out the fact that since its transformation into a regional economic
organization with an international legal identity as from 1 May 1999, the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation Organization has established itself as a reliable partner in
boosting economic cooperation in the Black Sea region,
Recognizing that any dispute or conflict in the region impedes cooperation,
and stressing the need to solve such a dispute or conflict on the basis of the norms
and principles of international law,
Convinced that the strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations
and other organizations contributes to the promotion of the purposes and principles
of the United Nations,
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Resolution 49/57, annex.