Interaction Between the United Nations, National Parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union

A/RES/66/261View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 130 Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2012–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/319

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/319	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union	2,894	81%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/270	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union	2,679	73%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/304	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union	2,337	55%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/278	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union	1,722	38%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/298	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union	1,877	63%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

5 reports · 2016–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/79/837	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/270
2022	A/76/780	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/304
2020	A/74/759	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/278
2018	A/72/791	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/272
2016	A/70/917	Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/68/272

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Country Teams Human Rights Legislative Bodies Treaty-Monitoring Bodies Women's Advancement

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the efforts made by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to provide for a greater parliamentary contribution and enhanced support to the United Nations;

Encourages the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to continue to work closely in various fields, in particular peace and security, economic and social development, international law, human rights and democracy and gender issues, bearing in mind the significant benefits of cooperation between the two organizations, to which the report of the Secretary-General attests;Error: Reference source not found

Encourages the Inter-Parliamentary Union to strengthen further its contribution to the work of the General Assembly, including its revitalization, and in relation to the process of United Nations reform and system-wide coherence;

Also encourages the Inter-Parliamentary Union to continue its efforts in mobilizing parliamentary action towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by the target date of 2015, as well as in bringing a parliamentary contribution to the design of the next generation of global development goals;

Welcomes the practice of including legislators as members of national delegations to major United Nations meetings and events, as appropriate, and invites Member States to continue this practice in a more regular and systematic manner;

Invites Member States to further consider ways to work regularly with the Inter-Parliamentary Union on facilitating a parliamentary component to major international processes, along the lines of the parliamentary track of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 9 to 13 May 2011;

Calls for the annual parliamentary hearing at the United Nations to be more closely linked to major United Nations processes, including the preparation of global conferences, so as to help to inform such deliberations from a parliamentary perspective;

Encourages the Inter-Parliamentary Union to provide a parliamentary contribution to the United Nations human rights treaty body system and to the Human Rights Council, along the lines of the cooperation developed in recent years between the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and national parliaments whose countries are under review;

Invites UN-Women to work closely with the Inter-Parliamentary Union in such areas as the empowerment of women, institutional gender mainstreaming, support to parliaments in promoting gender-sensitive legislation, combating violence against women and the implementation of relevant United Nations resolutions;

Encourages the Inter-Parliamentary Union to further assist in developing closer cooperation between the United Nations and parliaments at the national level, including in terms of strengthening parliamentary capacities, reinforcing the rule of law and helping to align national legislation with international commitments;

Calls upon United Nations country teams to develop a more structured and integrated manner of working with national parliaments, inter alia, by involving parliaments in consultations on national development strategies and on development aid effectiveness;

Encourages the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to avail themselves more systematically of the unique expertise of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and its member parliaments in strengthening parliamentary institutions, particularly in countries emerging from conflict and/or in the transition to democracy;

Calls for a regular annual exchange between the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination and the senior leadership of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, with a view to building greater coherence in the work of the two organizations, maximizing parliamentary support for the United Nations and helping to forge a strategic partnership between the two organizations;

Recommends that a new Cooperation Agreement between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union be drawn up, so as to reflect progress and developments over the past sixteen years;

Decides, in recognition of the unique role of national parliaments in support of the work of the United Nations, to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session the item entitled “Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”, and invites the Secretary-General to submit a report under this item.

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