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

A/RES/70/298View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124 Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, published in 2016.

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?

3 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations International Cooperation Legislative Bodies

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the actions taken by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to pursue a more systematic engagement with 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, climate change, international law, human rights and gender issues, democracy and good governance, bearing in mind the significant benefits of cooperation between the two organizations, to which the report of the Secretary-General attests;1

Also encourages the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to strengthen their cooperation in the fields of dialogue among civilizations, culture, education, information and communications technologies, disaster risk reduction and financing for development;

Encourages the continued active involvement of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in mobilizing parliamentary action in support of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and emphasizes the importance of the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union continuing to work closely together with a view to promoting the enhanced contribution of parliaments at the national level and the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the global level in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;5

Encourages the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to strengthen cooperation by engaging parliamentarians in efforts to maintain support for the implementation of relevant United Nations agreements;

Takes note of the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, held at United Nations Headquarters from 31 August to 2 September 2015, which, inter alia, provided a high-level parliamentary contribution to the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda;

Welcomes the practice of including legislators as members of national delegations to major United Nations meetings and events, as appropriate, including the high-level political forum on sustainable development and the youth forum of the Economic and Social Council, 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 in facilitating a parliamentary component to major United Nations conferences and in more closely linking the annual parliamentary hearing at the United Nations to the main United Nations processes, so as to help to inform such deliberations from a parliamentary perspective;

Encourages Member States to consider applying the practice of the joint United Nations-Inter-Parliamentary Union parliamentary hearing to other parliamentary meetings convened in conjunction with major United Nations conferences and processes, such as the parliamentary meeting organized on the occasion of the annual session of the Commission on the Status of Women, with a view to including the outcome of these parliamentary meetings as a formal contribution to the respective United Nations processes;

Welcomes the contribution of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the work of the Human Rights Council, notably by providing a more robust parliamentary contribution to the universal periodic review, and to the work of the United Nations human rights treaty bodies 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;

Encourages the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and other relevant bodies of the United Nations system to work closely with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and national parliaments in accordance with their respective mandates and, upon request, in such areas as gender equality and the empowerment of women, including in conflict prevention and peace processes, institutional gender mainstreaming, support to parliaments in promoting gender-sensitive legislation, increasing the representation of women in parliaments, combating violence against women and implementing relevant United Nations resolutions;

Welcomes the contribution of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the work of the high-level political forum on sustainable development, through the participation of parliamentarians, in convening a regular parliamentary side event on the work of parliaments to institutionalize the Sustainable Development Goals;

Invites the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to enhance their cooperation in supporting Governments in facilitating the orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies;

Encourages the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to develop closer cooperation with 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;

Takes note of the Common Principles for Support to Parliaments, pioneered by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations Development Programme with a view to further strengthening the capacities of parliaments to perform their functions;

Calls upon United Nations country teams to develop, within their mandates and at the request of national authorities, a more structured and integrated manner of working with national parliaments, through appropriate mechanisms, inter alia, by involving parliaments in consultations on national development strategies and on development aid effectiveness, where applicable;

Encourages the United Nations system to help to facilitate greater South-South and triangular cooperation between parliaments and parliamentarians, within existing resources, in cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union;

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 transition to democracy;

Calls for a regular annual exchange between the senior leadership of the United Nations and that of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, with a view to building greater coherence in the work of the two organizations, enhancing coordination in the cooperation between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, maximizing parliamentary support for the United Nations and helping to forge a strategic partnership between the two organizations;

Welcomes the new cooperation agreement between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which reflects progress and developments over past years and places the institutional relationship between the two organizations on a stronger footing;

Decides, in recognition of the significant cooperation and enhanced engagement among United Nations entities and the global parliamentary community in implementing their shared global objectives, to strengthen the modalities of this cooperation and to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session the item entitled “Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit a report under this item.

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