A/RES/71/15
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 December 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 126 (x)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 November 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.12 and Add.1)]
71/15.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Organization for Democracy and Economic
Development – GUAM
The General Assembly,
Referring to its resolution 58/85 of 9 December 2003, by which it granted the
GUUAM observer status in the General Assembly, and its resolution 67/109 of
17 December 2012, in which it took note that GUUAM had been transformed into the
Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM by the Heads of
State of members of the organization in their Kyiv Declaration of 23 May 2006,1
Referring also to its resolution 69/271 of 2 April 2015,
Recalling that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve
international cooperation in solving international problems of a political, economic,
social, cultural or humanitarian nature,
Referring to Security Council resolution 1631 (2005) of 17 October 2005, in
which the Council recalled its invitation to regional organizations to improve
coordination with the United Nations and the Declaration on the Enhancement of
Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional Arrangements or Agencies in
the Maintenance of International Peace and Security, adopted by the General
Assembly on 9 December 1994, 2
Acknowledging the efforts of the Organization for Democracy and Economic
Development – GUAM to develop partnership relations with the United Nations and
its Member States, based on the principles of sovereign equality, mutual respect and
mutually beneficial cooperation, as well as on the commitment to democratic values,
the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Convinced that further developing cooperation between the United Nations and
other organizations of the United Nations system and the Organization for
Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM will further contribute to the
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A/60/875-S/2006/364, annex I.
Resolution 49/57, annex.
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