United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/61/13
Distr.: General
8 December 2006
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 108 (g)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 November 2006
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.14 and Add.1)]
61/13. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Council of Europe
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Agreement between the Council of Europe and the Secretariat of
the United Nations signed on 15 December 1951 and the Arrangement on
Cooperation and Liaison between the Secretariats of the United Nations and the
Council of Europe of 19 November 1971,
Recalling also the 2005 World Summit Outcome, approved at the United
Nations summit held in New York from 14 to 16 September 2005, including the
section on regional organizations, 1 which provides an incentive to reinforce links
between the United Nations and regional organizations such as the Council of
Europe,
Welcoming the outcome of the Third Summit of the Council of Europe, held in
Warsaw on 16 and 17 May 2005, and the fact that on this occasion the Heads of
State and Government encouraged cooperation with the United Nations and the
specialized agencies, and committed themselves to achieving the Millennium
Developments Goals in Europe, including environmental development,
Welcoming also the increasingly close relations between the United Nations
and the Council of Europe,
Welcoming further the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between
the United Nations and the Council of Europe, 2
1.
Considers that cooperation with the Council of Europe regarding the
protection of human rights, the fight against racism, discrimination, xenophobia and
intolerance, the protection of the rights of persons belonging to minorities, the
prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the fight
against trafficking in human beings and violence against women, as well as the
protection and promotion of the rights of the child should be reinforced;
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Resolution 60/1, para. 170.
A/61/256, part one, sect. VI.