A/RES/56/42 United Nations Distr.: General 15 January 2002 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 21 (l) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.30)] 56/42. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/283 of 7 September 2001, in which it approved the Agreement concerning the Relationship between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and the decision of 17 May 2001 of the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction to approve the Agreement, 1 Having received the annual report for 2000 of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the implementation of the Convention, 2 1. Welcomes the entry into force of the Agreement concerning the Relationship between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; 2. Takes note of the annual report for 2000 of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons submitted by its Director-General on its behalf;2 3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”. 80th plenary meeting 7 December 2001 _______________ 1 2 01 48334 See A/55/988. See A/56/490.