United
Nations
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/7
7 November 1996
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.