Cooperation Between the United Nations and the League of Arab States

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 123o Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

34 versions · 1981–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/12

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/12	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States	814	49%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/17	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States	728	51%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/11	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States	822	41%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/267	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States	891	52%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/11	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States	675	41%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2001–2002

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2002	A/57/386	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/56/40
2001	A/56/474	Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/55/10

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Cooperation Between Organizations

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretariat of the United Nations and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States to further intensify bilateral consultations, improve the exchange of information at all levels and advance cooperation in the political, social, economic, cultural, disarmament, conflict prevention, peacebuilding and peacemaking, and mediation areas;

Calls for the continuation of periodic consultations between representatives of both the Secretariat of the United Nations and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in order to review and strengthen coordination mechanisms with a view to accelerating the implementation of mutually agreed projects and recommendations;

Requests the Secretariat of the United Nations and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States to accelerate the review of the 1989 agreement of cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States,⁷ in line with their priorities and emerging challenges;

⁷United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1546, No. 1030.

Calls upon the specialized agencies, organizations and programmes of the United Nations system:

To maintain and increase contacts and improve the mechanism of consultation with the counterpart programmes, organizations and agencies of the League of Arab States in order to facilitate the implementation of mutually agreed projects and programmes;

To make the greatest possible use of Arab institutions and technical expertise in projects undertaken in the Arab region;

To participate, whenever possible, with the organizations and institutions of the League of Arab States in the execution and implementation of development projects in the Arab region;

To inform the Secretary-General, no later than January 2016, of the progress made in their cooperation with the League of Arab States and, in particular, in the implementation of multilateral and bilateral proposals adopted at the twelfth general meeting on cooperation between representatives of the secretariats of the organizations of the United Nations system and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations, held in June 2014, and at the forthcoming sectoral meeting on human rights in 2015;

Reaffirms that, in order to enhance cooperation and for the purpose of the review and appraisal of progress, a general meeting between representatives of the United Nations system and the League of Arab States should be held once every two years and that joint inter-agency sectoral meetings should also be convened on a biennial basis to address priority areas of major importance to the development of the Arab States;

Also reaffirms the importance of holding the twelfth sectoral meeting between the United Nations and the League of Arab States and its specialized agencies in Cairo during the first six months of 2015 on the theme “The repercussions of understanding human rights: towards a comprehensive regional cooperation approach”;

Further reaffirms the importance of holding the thirteenth general meeting on cooperation between representatives of the secretariats of the organizations of the United Nations system and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and its specialized organizations during 2016, for which the dates and venue will be agreed upon in due course;

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

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first session, under the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations”, the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States”.

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