General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  
50th session
22 November 1995

Fiftieth session
Agenda item 150

                  RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
         [without reference to a Main Committee (A/50/L.20 and Add.1)]

            50/15.   Cooperation between the United Nations
                     and the Inter-Parliamentary Union

      The General Assembly,

      Noting that national parliaments work together at the
international level through the Inter-Parliamentary Union, their world
organization, which shares the principles and objectives of the United
Nations,

      Considering that the activities of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
complement and support the work of the United Nations,

      Desirous of strengthening existing cooperation between the United
Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union and of giving it a new and
adequate framework,

      1.    Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps
to conclude an agreement on cooperation between the two organizations
which should make provision for consultations, appropriate
representation and cooperation, in general as well as in specific
fields, and to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-first
session on this matter;

      2.    Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-
first session the item entitled "Cooperation between the United
Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union".

                                                          61st plenary meeting
                                                              15 November 1995