A/RES/65/123
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 February 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 122 (m)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2010
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/65/L.11 and Add.1)]
65/123. Cooperation between the United Nations, national
parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General of 20 September 2010, 1
which attests to the broad and substantive cooperation between the United Nations
and the Inter-Parliamentary Union over the past two years,
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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,
Taking note also of the outcome of the Third World Conference of Speakers of
Parliament, including the Declaration on Securing Global Democratic
Accountability for the Common Good, 2 which reaffirms the commitment of national
parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to support the work of the United
Nations and continue efforts to bridge the democracy gap in international relations,
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Taking note further of the findings and recommendations of the report of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union on how parliaments organize their work with the United
Nations, 3
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Welcoming the annual parliamentary hearings at the United Nations as joint
United Nations-Inter-Parliamentary Union events during 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, 4 which laid the foundation for
cooperation between the two organizations,
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1
A/65/382-S/2010/490.
A/65/289, annex I.
3
Ibid., annex II.
4
A/51/402, annex.
2
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