A/RES/57/34. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2002

• Resolution Number: A/RES/57/34
• Year: 2002
• Session: 57th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/57/34

General Assembly Distr.: General

10 January 2003

Fifty-seventh session

Agenda item 22 (b)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.11 and Add.1)]

57/34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black

Sea Economic Cooperation Organization

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 54/5 of 8 October 1999, by which it granted observer

status to the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization, as well as its resolution

55/211 of 20 December 2000, on cooperation between the United Nations and the

Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization,

Recalling also

that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to achieve

international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social or

humanitarian nature,

Recalling further

the Articles of the Charter of the United Nations that

encourage activities through regional cooperation for the promotion of the purposes

and principles of the United Nations,

Bearing in mind

the Charter signed at the summit meeting in Yalta, Ukraine,

on 5 June 1998, which entered into force on 1 May 1999, thus transforming the

Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization into a regional economic

organization with an international legal identity, as well as the declarations adopted

by the heads of State or Government of its member States at the summit meetings

held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 17 November 1999 and 25 June 2002,

Recognizing

that any dispute or conflict in the region impedes cooperation,

and stressing the need to solve such a dispute or conflict on the basis of the norms

and principles of international law,

Convinced

that the strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations

and other organizations contributes to the promotion of the purposes and principles

of the United Nations,

Recalling

the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to resolution

55/211,

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1 A/57/87.