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
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See A/55/988.