United Nations A/RES/57/157 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 22 (n) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.55/Rev.1 and Add.1)] 57/157. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 55/15 of 3 November 2000 relating to the promotion of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States, Taking note with satisfaction of 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, Recalling also 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, Recalling further its resolutions 47/20 A of 24 November 1992, 47/20 B of 20 April 1993, 48/27 B of 8 July 1994, 49/5 of 21 October 1994, 49/27 B of 12 July 1995, 50/86 B of 3 April 1996, 51/4 of 24 October 1996 and 53/9 of 22 October 1998, Taking account of the Summit of the Americas, held in Quebec City, Canada, from 20 to 22 April 2001, Noting that the International Civilian Support Mission in Haiti completed its mandate in March 2001, Aware of the increasing cooperation between bodies of the inter-American system for the protection of human rights and those pertaining to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, _______________ 1 02 54853 A/57/267. Distr.: General 4 March 2003