A/RES/60/153 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 21 February 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 71 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/509/Add.2 (Part II))] 60/153. Establishment of a United Nations human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region The General Assembly, Guided by the fundamental and universal principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1 Recalling the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993, 2 which reiterated the need to consider the possibility of establishing regional and subregional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights where they do not already exist, Recalling also its resolutions 32/127 of 16 December 1977, 51/102 of 12 December 1996 and all its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling further Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/51 of 9 March 1993 3 and all its subsequent resolutions concerning regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, Recalling the report of the Secretary-General on regional arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights, 4 Reaffirming its endorsement of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993, and the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights, economic, civil, cultural, political and social, including the right to development, Reaffirming also that regional cooperation plays a fundamental role in promoting and protecting human rights and should reinforce universal human rights, as contained in international human rights instruments, and their protection, _______________ 1 Resolution 217 A (III). A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III. 3 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda (E/1993/23 and Corr.2, 4 and 5), chap. II, sect. A. 4 A/59/323. 2 05-49678