A/RES/55/283 United Nations Distr.: General 24 September 2001 General Assembly Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 181 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/55/L.92 and Add.1)] 55/283. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 51/230 of 22 May 1997, by which it invited the Secretary-General to take steps to conclude with the Director-General of the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an agreement between the United Nations and the organization to regulate the relationship between the two organizations, and to present the negotiated draft relationship agreement to the General Assembly for its approval, Noting the decision of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 17 May 2001 to approve the Agreement concerning the Relationship between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 1 Having considered the Agreement concerning the Relationship between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 1. Approves the Agreement concerning the Relationship between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the text of which is annexed to the present resolution; 2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth and subsequent sessions the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”. 111th plenary meeting 7 September 2001 1 00 57613 See A/55/988.

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