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

A/RES/72/278View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 126 Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, published in 2017.

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?

4 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations International Cooperation International Days Legislative Bodies

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the actions taken by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to pursue a more systematic engagement with the United Nations, and encourages both organizations to enhance their cooperation in meeting their common objectives;

Encourages the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to continue to work closely in various fields, including sustainable development, peacebuilding and sustaining peace, international law, human rights, gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, youth empowerment, democracy and good governance, information and communications technologies, disaster risk reduction, capacity-building and financing for development;

Also 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;

Encourages the continued active involvement of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in promoting the enhanced contribution of parliaments at the national, regional and global levels in support of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals;

Welcomes the practice of including parliamentarians 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 in facilitating a parliamentary component to major United Nations conferences 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 enhanced contribution of parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the work of the Human Rights Council and the human rights treaty bodies, and acknowledges the crucial role that parliaments play in translating international commitments into national policies and laws;

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 national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union 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, including women in politics, and implementing relevant United Nations resolutions;

Encourages the relevant entities of the United Nations system to work closely with national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, inter alia, in areas such as youth empowerment and participation of young men and women in politics, as appropriate, rapid technological change, as well as countering terrorism and preventing violent extremism as and when conducive to terrorism;

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, as well as through its efforts to encourage parliaments to engage in the voluntary national reviews of participating countries;

Also welcomes the efforts of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to raise parliamentary support for health, in particular women’s, adolescent and child health and nutrition, and invites the World Health Organization and other relevant agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system to enhance cooperation with the Inter-Parliamentary Union in this regard;

Invites the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the relevant bodies of the United Nations system to continue and 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, and recognizes the contribution of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in the preparatory process for the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration;

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, inter alia, in regard to the allocation of budgetary resources for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,3 as appropriate, and in 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 and endorsed by 96 national parliaments and 5 parliamentary assemblies with a view to further strengthening the capacity 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;

Calls upon United Nations entities 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 regular annual exchanges and meetings at both the political and the operational levels between senior officials of the United Nations and of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, with a view to building greater coherence in the work of the two organizations and helping to forge a more robust strategic partnership between them;

Encourages the United Nations system to reflect more systematically the role and contribution of parliaments in its reports and draft strategic plans;

Decides, with effect from its seventy-second session, to observe on 30 June of each year the International Day of Parliamentarism, invites all Member States, national parliaments, organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant international organizations, civil society, including non-governmental organizations, and all other relevant stakeholders to observe the Day and to promote awareness of it, and stresses that the cost of all activities that may arise from the observance of the Day by the United Nations should be met from voluntary contributions;

Acknowledges the invitation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union to organize a world conference on interfaith and inter-ethnic dialogue with the participation of Heads of State, parliaments and representatives of world religions, and encourages the conduct of preparations in cooperation with the United Nations;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,⁶ and requests that he submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session a report under the item entitled “Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter-Parliamentary Union”, with a special focus on best practices to support the role of parliaments in translating international commitments into national policies.

⁶A/72/791.

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