General Assembly

Distr. GENERAL  

7 November 1996

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Fifty-first session
Agenda item 29


                  RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

         [without reference to a Main Committee (A/51/L.6 and Add.1)]


            51/7.    Cooperation between the United Nations
                     and the Inter-Parliamentary Union


      The General Assembly,

      Recalling its resolution 50/15 of 15 November 1995, in which it
requested the Secretary-General to conclude an agreement on
cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union,

      Having considered the report of the Secretary-General,  1/
transmitting the text of the cooperation agreement signed on 24 July
1996,

      Stressing its desire to strengthen existing cooperation between
the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union and of giving it
a new and adequate framework,

      1.    Welcomes the conclusion on 24 July 1996 of the cooperation
agreement between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union;

      2.    Considers that the signature of the agreement constitutes an
important step for increased and strengthened cooperation between the
two organizations;

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

      4.    Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the
General Assembly at its fifty-second session on various aspects of
cooperation that have taken place between the United Nations and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union in implementation of the cooperation
agreement.

                                                          41st plenary meeting
                                                               25 October 1996


                                     Note

1/          A/51/402.