A/RES/64/161 United Nations Distr.: General 12 March 2010 General Assembly Sixty-fourth session Agenda item 69 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/439/Add.2 (Part II))] 64/161. National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions, the most recent of which is resolution 63/172 of 18 December 2008, and those of the Commission on Human Rights concerning national institutions and their role in the promotion and protection of human rights, Welcoming the rapidly growing interest throughout the world in the creation and strengthening of independent, pluralistic national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (“the Paris Principles”), 1 0F Reaffirming the important role that such national institutions play and will continue to play in promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, in strengthening participation and the rule of law and in developing and enhancing public awareness of those rights and freedoms, Recognizing the important role of the United Nations, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in assisting the development of independent and effective national human rights institutions, guided by the Paris Principles, and recognizing also in this regard the potential for strengthened and complementary cooperation among the United Nations, the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and those national institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June l993, 2 which reaffirmed the important and constructive role played by national human rights institutions, in 1F _______________ 1 2 09-47149 Resolution 48/134, annex. A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. *0947149* Please rec cle ♲