A/RES/60/253. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/60/253
• Year: 2006
• Session: 60th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/60/253

General Assembly Distr.: General

24 May 2006

Sixtieth session

Agenda item 10

05-50278

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 May 2006

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/60/L.53 and Add.1)]

60/253. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of

Governments to promote and consolidate new or

restored democracies

The General Assembly

,

Bearing in mind

the indissoluble links between the principles enshrined in the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1

and the foundations of any democratic

society,

Recognizing

that human rights, the rule of law and democracy are interlinked

and mutually reinforcing and that they belong to the universal and indivisible core

values and principles of the United Nations,

Recalling

the United Nations Millennium Declaration adopted by Heads of

State and Government on 8 September 2000,

2

in particular paragraphs 6 and 24

thereof, and the 2005 World Summit Outcome,

3

Recalling also

its resolutions 49/30 of 7 December 1994, 50/133 of

20 December 1995, 51/31 of 6 December 1996, 52/18 of 21 November 1997, 53/31

of 23 November 1998, 54/36 of 29 November 1999, 55/43 of 27 November 2000,

56/96 of 14 December 2001, 56/269 of 27 March 2002, 58/13 of 17 November 2003

and 58/281 of 9 February 2004,

Recalling further

the declarations and plans of action of the five international

conferences of new or restored democracies adopted in Manila in 1988, Managua in

1994, Bucharest in 1997, Cotonou in 2000 and Ulaanbaatar in 2003,

Recalling

that the Fifth International Conference of New or Restored

Democracies, which was held in Ulaanbaatar from 10 to 12 September 2003,

focused on democracy, good governance and civil society,

Noting

the results of the Parliamentarians’ Forum convened by the Inter-

Parliamentary Union and the Parliament of Mongolia on the occasion of the Fifth

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1 Resolution 217 A (III).

2 See resolution 55/2.

3 See resolution 60/1.