Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries

A/RES/63/143View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114f Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 2005–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/265

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/265	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries	2,058	64%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/14	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries	1,800	56%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/339	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries	1,551	60%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/324	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries	1,377	56%Compare
2015	A/RES/69/311	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries	952	49%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Consultations Cooperation Between Organizations Cultural Pluralism Desertification Information Exchange Land Degradation Portuguese Language Poverty Mitigation Radio Specialized Agencies Technical Cooperation Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries Television

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the outcome of the seventh Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, held in Lisbon on 24 and 25 July 2008, which recognizes the economic value of the Portuguese language and the political commitment to promote it in the international and regional organizations and United Nations agencies and programmes;

Expresses satisfaction with the strengthening of cooperation between the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and the specialized agencies and other bodies and programmes of the United Nations, in particular the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS;

Welcomes the signature of a cooperation agreement between the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and the Portuguese Language Unit of the Radio and Television Service of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, in New York on 25 April 2008, regarding the exchange of information and cooperation to organize initiatives to promote cultural diversity within the Portuguese-speaking countries;

Also welcomes the signature of a cooperation agreement between the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries on 8 November 2007, on combating rural poverty in Portuguese-speaking developing countries, as well as the work done by the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, within the framework of the technical cooperation project signed in May 2008 with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which aims at the formulation of a South-South and North-South cooperation programme for the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa;²

²United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1954, No. 33480.

Further welcomes the establishment of the partnership between the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries and the International Labour Organization Office in Lisbon, which aims at the creation of an interactive platform for the Governments of the Portuguese-speaking countries to exchange information and experiences within the scope of social protection, decent work, monitoring of labour standards and working conditions, and the fight against child labour;

Recognizes the importance of the signature, in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5 November 2008, of a cooperation agreement between the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and the secretariat of the Convention, with a view to developing joint actions in the fields of combating desertification, land degradation, drought mitigation, water scarcity and poverty;

Encourages the Secretary-General and the Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries to initiate consultations with a view to considering the establishment of a formal cooperation agreement;

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries”.

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