Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 22 Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1982–1997

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/52/2	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation	929	28%Compare
1995	A/RES/50/3	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation	528	18%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/174	Co-operation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation	163	34%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/132	Co-operation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation	346	25%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/174	Co-operation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation	261	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Conferences Consultations Cooperation Between Organizations Cultural Cooperation Francophonie French Language Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation;1

Commends the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation for its continuing efforts to encourage multilateral cooperation among countries that use French as a common language, particularly in the areas of conflict prevention, strengthening of the rule of law, economic, social and cultural development and promotion of new information technologies, and requests United Nations bodies to give it their support;

Welcomes the involvement of the countries that use French as a common language, through the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, in United Nations activities, including the preparation for, conduct of and follow-up to world conferences organized under United Nations auspices;

Notes with satisfaction that the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation is participating more frequently in the work of the United Nations, to which it makes a valuable contribution;

Welcomes in particular the five cooperation agreements concluded in 1995 and 1996 between the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the one hand and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation on the other;

Welcomes also the high-level meetings held periodically between the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation and between senior secretariat officials of both organizations, and encourages their participation in major meetings of both organizations;

Notes with satisfaction the outcome of the meeting held in Paris on 29 September 1997 between those responsible for electoral assistance at the United Nations and at the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, and encourages cooperation between the two organizations in this area;

Recommends to the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation that they intensify their consultations with a view to ensuring greater coordination in the area of conflict prevention, support for the rule of law and democracy and promotion of human rights;

Invites the Secretary-General to include the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation in the periodic meetings he holds with the heads of regional organizations, taking into account the role played by the Agency in the area of conflict prevention and support for democracy and the rule of law;

Requests the Secretary-General, acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, to encourage the holding of periodic meetings between representatives of the United Nations Secretariat and representatives of the secretariat of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation in order to promote the exchange of information and the identification of new areas of cooperation;

Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Secretary-General of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation for their sustained efforts to strengthen cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, thereby serving the mutual interests of the two organizations in the political, economic, social and cultural fields;

Invites the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps, in consultation with the Secretary-General of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, to continue to promote cooperation between the two organizations;

Invites the specialized agencies and other programmes and organizations of the United Nations system, particularly the United Nations Development Programme, to collaborate to this end with the Secretary-General of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation by undertaking new joint initiatives in the areas of poverty elimination, micro-financing, energy, sustainable development, education, training and the development of new information technologies;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation".

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