A/RES/63/14
United Nations
Distr.: General
16 December 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 114 (g)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 November 2008
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/63/L.12 and Add.1)]
63/14. 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 its previous resolutions on cooperation between the United
Nations and the Council of Europe,
Recalling further the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 1 in 2008, and noting the sixtieth anniversary of the European
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 2 in
2010,
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Acknowledging the contribution of the Council of Europe, at the European
level, to the protection and strengthening of human rights and fundamental
freedoms, democracy and the rule of law through its standards, principles and
monitoring mechanisms, as well as to the effective implementation of all relevant
international legal instruments of the United Nations,
Taking note of the contribution of the Council of Europe to the universal
periodic review by the Human Rights Council of the situation of human rights in
States members of the Council of Europe,
Welcoming the declaration of the Council of Europe to improve the protection
of human rights defenders and promote their activities within the European sphere,
Acknowledging the contribution of the Council of Europe to the development
of international law, and noting that a number of legal instruments of the Council
are open to the participation of States of other regions,
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