A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/4 7 November 1996 Fifty-first session Agenda item 22 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/51/L.5/Rev.1 and Rev.1/Add.1)] 51/4. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 49/5 of 21 October 1994 relating to the promotion of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States, Having examined the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States, 1/ Recalling that the purposes of the United Nations are, inter alia, to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends, Bearing in mind that the Charter of the United Nations provides for the existence of regional arrangements and agencies for dealing with such matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as are appropriate for regional action and whose activities are consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations, Recalling that the Charter of the Organization of American States reaffirms these purposes and principles and provides that that organization is a regional agency under the terms of the Charter of the United Nations, 1/ 96-77443 A/51/297 and Add.1. /...