A/RES/57/26. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2002

• Resolution Number: A/RES/57/26
• Year: 2002
• Session: 57th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/57/26

General Assembly Distr.: General

3 February 2003

Fifty-seventh session

Agenda item 159

02 53947

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/57/566)]

57/26. Prevention and peaceful settlement of disputes

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

Recalling also

Chapter VI of the Charter, in particular Article 33, and

underlining the obligation of Member States to seek a solution to their disputes by

peaceful means of their own choice,

Recalling further

the principles in the United Nations Millennium Declaration

1

and the declaration of the Security Council on Ensuring an Effective Role of the

Security Council in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,

particularly in Africa,

2

adopted during the Millennium Summit,

Recalling

the Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International

Disputes,

3

the Declaration on the Prevention and Removal of Disputes and

Situations Which May Threaten International Peace and Security and on the Role of

the United Nations in this Field,

4

the Declaration on Fact-finding by the United Nations

in the Field of the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,

5

the Declaration on

the Enhancement of Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional

Arrangements or Agencies in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security,

6

and

the United Nations Model Rules for the Conciliation of Disputes between States,

7

elaborated by the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on

the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization and adopted unanimously by the

General Assembly,

Noting with appreciation

the work done by the Special Committee to

encourage States to focus on the need to prevent and to settle peacefully their

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1 See resolution 55/2.

2 Security Council resolution 13 18 (2000), annex.

3 Resolution 37/10, annex.

4 Resolution 43/51, annex.

5 Resolution 46/59, annex.

6 Resolution 49/57, annex.

7 Resolution 50/50, annex.