A/RES/65/130
United Nations
Distr.: General
24 February 2011
General Assembly
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 122 (h)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 13 December 2010
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/65/L.41 and Add.1)]
65/130. 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 resolution 44/6 of 17 October 1989, in which it granted the
Council of Europe a standing invitation to participate as an observer in its sessions
and work, as well as its previous resolutions on cooperation between the United
Nations and the Council of Europe, 1
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Noting the sixtieth anniversary of the European Convention for the Protection
of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 2 in 2010, and the entry into force of
Protocol No. 14 thereto, 3 on 1 June 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 relevant
international legal instruments of the United Nations,
Acknowledging also the contribution of the Council of Europe to the
development of international law, and noting the openness of the Council of Europe
to the participation of States of other regions in its legal instruments,
Noting the contribution of the Council of Europe to the report submitted by the
Secretary-General to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session on the support
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Resolutions 55/3, 56/43, 57/156, 59/139, 61/13 and 63/14.
Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 5.
3
Ibid., No. 194.
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