United Nations A/RES/60/253 General Assembly Sixtieth session Agenda item 10 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 May 2006 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.53 and Add.1)] 60/253. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies The General Assembly, Bearing in mind the indissoluble links between the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 and the foundations of any democratic society, Recognizing that human rights, the rule of law and democracy are interlinked and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the universal and indivisible core values and principles of the United Nations, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by Heads of State and Government on 8 September 2000, 2 in particular paragraphs 6 and 24 thereof, and the 2005 World Summit Outcome, 3 Recalling also its resolutions 49/30 of 7 December 1994, 50/133 of 20 December 1995, 51/31 of 6 December 1996, 52/18 of 21 November 1997, 53/31 of 23 November 1998, 54/36 of 29 November 1999, 55/43 of 27 November 2000, 56/96 of 14 December 2001, 56/269 of 27 March 2002, 58/13 of 17 November 2003 and 58/281 of 9 February 2004, Recalling further the declarations and plans of action of the five international conferences of new or restored democracies adopted in Manila in 1988, Managua in 1994, Bucharest in 1997, Cotonou in 2000 and Ulaanbaatar in 2003, Recalling that the Fifth International Conference of New or Restored Democracies, which was held in Ulaanbaatar from 10 to 12 September 2003, focused on democracy, good governance and civil society, Noting the results of the Parliamentarians’ Forum convened by the InterParliamentary Union and the Parliament of Mongolia on the occasion of the Fifth _______________ 1 Resolution 217 A (III). See resolution 55/2. 3 See resolution 60/1. 2 05-50278 Distr.: General 24 May 2006