Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 38 Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1996–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/298

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/298	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe	2,998	48%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/216	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe	2,041	41%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/179	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe	1,867	43%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/117	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe	1,723	46%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/85	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe	1,060	40%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 1998

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
1998	A/53/672	Report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/52/22

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Situation Confidence-Building Measures Cooperation Between Organizations Declarations Elections Europe Georgia Situation Human Rights Nagorny Karabakh Situation Regional Security

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Secretary-General;⁴

⁴A/51/489 and Add.1.

Also welcomes the progress in common work in the field between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe;

Further welcomes the Summit Declaration and the decisions adopted by the heads of State or Government of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on 3 December 1996 at Lisbon, in particular the Lisbon Declaration on a Common and Comprehensive Security Model for Europe for the Twenty-first Century, which, as such, complements the mutually reinforcing efforts of other European and transatlantic institutions and organizations in this field;

Commends the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for the fulfilment, in cooperation with the United Nations, of the role assigned to it by the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the annexes thereto⁵(collectively the Peace Agreement), in particular for:

⁵A/50/790-S/1995/999; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1995, document S/1995/999.

The successful supervision of the preparation and the conduct of the elections held on 14 September 1996;

The monitoring, together with other international organizations, of the development of human rights standards;

The support offered to the Human Rights Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

The agreements concluded under its auspices on confidence- and security-building measures, as well as on subregional arms control;

Welcomes the decision of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to continue its engagement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to contribute to the building of democratic structures and to the fostering of civil society, including the promotion of human rights standards, and welcomes in this context further cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe;

Underlines the responsibility of the parties to organize free and fair municipal elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in this regard, welcomes the confirmation that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will supervise the preparation and conduct of those elections;

Welcomes the readiness of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to continue to contribute in and around Bosnia and Herzegovina to regional stabilization and, also in accordance with the Peace Agreement, to assist the implementation of the agreements on confidence- and security-building measures, on subregional arms control, as well as to promote negotiations on regional arms control;

Also welcomes the readiness of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to support the Human Rights Office in Sukhumi, Georgia, which forms part of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia;

Fully supports the activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict in and around the Nagorny Karabakh region of the Azerbaijan Republic, and welcomes cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in this regard;

Welcomes the intensified cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe over the past year, for example in Tajikistan, Croatia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in the provision of human rights training courses in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in collaboration on the subject of the return and reintegration of refugees and other involuntarily displaced persons in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States;

Supports the activities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe aimed at contributing to stability and the maintenance of peace and security within its region, and stresses the importance of the work done by its field missions;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue exploring with the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe possibilities for further enhancement of cooperation, information exchange and coordination between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations and on the basis of the framework for cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,1 avoiding as much as possible duplication and overlapping in those areas where both organizations have their own respective roles to play;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session the item entitled "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe", and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session a report on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in implementation of the present resolution.

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