A/RES/61/6
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 November 2006
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 108 (k)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 October 2006
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.6 and Add.1)]
61/6. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General of 16 August 2006,
which takes stock of the broad and substantive cooperation between the United
Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union over the past two years, 1
Taking note of the resolutions adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and
circulated in the General Assembly and the many activities undertaken by the
organization in support of the United Nations,
Welcoming the annual parliamentary hearings at the United Nations as a
regular feature of the programme of events held at United Nations Headquarters on
the occasion of the sessions of the General Assembly, as well as other specialized
parliamentary meetings organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in cooperation
with the United Nations in the context of major United Nations conferences and
events,
Taking into consideration the Cooperation Agreement between the United
Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union of 1996, 2 which laid the foundation for
cooperation between the two organizations,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 3 and the 2005 World
Summit Outcome, 4 in which Heads of State and Government resolved to strengthen
further cooperation between the United Nations and national parliaments through
their world organization, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, in all fields of work of the
United Nations and for the effective implementation of United Nations reform,
Also recalling its resolution 57/32 of 19 November 2002, in which the InterParliamentary Union was invited to participate in the work of the General Assembly
in the capacity of observer, as well as resolutions 57/47 of 21 November 2002 and
59/19 of 8 November 2004,
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1
See A/61/256, part three.
A/51/402, annex.
3
See resolution 55/2.
4
See resolution 60/1.
2
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