United Nations General Assembly A/RES/56/92 Distr.: General 25 January 2002 Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 173 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/56/598 and Corr.1)] 56/92. Observer status for the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States in the General Assembly The General Assembly, Considering the importance of the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States, an intergovernmental organization that addresses the common interests of its members and takes account of the diverse links that unite their peoples, and given the determination of the organization to confront the factors that have caused economic backwardness and instability in its member States, its conviction that joint action in a framework of complementarity is the best way to integrate its countries and peoples, its commitment to the maintenance of international peace and security in the Sahelo-Saharan region and its determination to satisfy the wish for economic, cultural, political and social integration in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization of African Unity, the Charter of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community of 3 June 1991 (the Abuja Treaty) 1 and the constitutive documents of the regional organizations to which its member States belong, Considering also the need, frequently noted by the United Nations, to promote and support every effort towards the development of bilateral and multilateral cooperation on the basis of international law, Noting that the treaty establishing the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States stresses regional cooperation as part of the process of achieving African unity on the basis of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the promotion of social justice and stability, Wishing to promote cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States, 1. Decides to invite the Community of Sahelo-Saharan States to participate in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly in the capacity of observer; 1 01 47945 A/46/651, annex.