A/RES/61/4 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 27 November 2006 Sixty-first session Agenda item 108 (d) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 October 2006 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.4 and Add.1)] 61/4. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 54/5 of 8 October 1999, by which it granted observer status to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, as well as its resolutions 55/211 of 20 December 2000, 57/34 of 21 November 2002 and 59/259 of 23 December 2004, on cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, Recalling also that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social or humanitarian nature, Recalling further the Articles of the Charter of the United Nations that encourage activities through regional cooperation for the promotion of the purposes and principles of the United Nations, Recalling its Declaration on the Enhancement of Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional Arrangements or Agencies in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security of 9 December 1994, 1 Recognizing that any dispute or conflict in the region impedes cooperation, and stressing the need to solve such a dispute or conflict on the basis of the norms and principles of international law, Convinced that the strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations and other organizations contributes to the promotion of the purposes and principles of the United Nations, Recalling the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution 59/259, 2 _______________ 1 2 06-49467 Resolution 49/57, annex. A/61/256, part two, sect. XIV.