A/RES/61/51. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Year: 2006
• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/51
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation
• Session: 61st

United Nations A/RES/61/51

General Assembly Distr.: General

16 February 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 108 (t)

06-49749

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 4 December 2006

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/61/L.37 and Add.1)]

61/51. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Southern

African Development Community

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 37/248 of 21 December 1982 and all other relevant

General Assembly resolutions and decisions on the promotion of cooperation

between the United Nations and the Southern African Development Community,

including resolutions 57/44 of 21 November 2002 and 59/140 of 15 December 2004

and decision 56/443 of 21 December 2001,

Recalling also

its resolution 59/49 of 2 December 2004, in which it decided to

invite the Community to participate in its sessions and its work in the capacity of

observer,

Recognizing

that cooperation between the Community and the United Nations

system has continued to deepen,

Commending

States members of the Community for demonstrating continued

commitment to deeper and more formal arrangements for cooperation among

themselves towards regional integration,

Welcoming

the continued commitment made by the States members of the

Community to deepen democracy, human rights, good governance and sound

economic management,

Expressing satisfaction

over continued efforts to bring peace to the Democratic

Republic of the Congo, launched by the Community in collaboration with the

African Union, the United Nations and other entities, and recognizing that the recent

elections undertaken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to end the current

transition period by the establishment of elected institutions at all levels are an

essential element of the peace process,

Noting with concern

that the HIV/AIDS pandemic has reached crisis

proportions in the region, and that other communicable diseases, such as malaria

and tuberculosis, are having far-reaching social and economic consequences,

Expressing concern

over the persistent natural disasters in countries of the

region,