Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe
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28. Notes the cooperation established between the United Nations Alliance of
Civilizations and the Council of Europe following their signature of a memorandum
of understanding on 29 September 2008 and the accession of the Alliance of
Civilizations to the Faro Platform, and encourages the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Alliance of Civilizations on the one hand,
and the Council of Europe and its North-South Centre on the other, to pursue their
developing and fruitful collaboration in the fields of intercultural dialogue and global
development education;
29. Also notes the cooperation between the Council of Europe and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in the field of education, and
encourages the extension of this cooperation, which should continue to focus on the role
of education in developing just and humane societies characterized by the participation
of individuals and the ability of individuals and societies to conduct intercultural dialogue,
as well as on the encouragement of the diversity of cultural expressions;
30. Welcomes the cooperation between the Council of Europe, the Office of
the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization and the United Nations Development Programme, and
encourages further cooperation to promote and implement the World Programme of
Action for Youth; 11
31. Notes the cooperation between the Council of Europe and the World Tourism
Organization, in particular on the basis of the memorandum of cooperation between the
World Tourism Organization and the Council of Europe of 3 September 2016;
32. Welcomes the cooperation among the Council of Europe, the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime to promote integrity and inclusiveness through sport,
encourages those organizations to continue their coo peration to support the
implementation of the Kazan Action Plan of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, adopted in July 2017, to set up the International
Partnership against Corruption in Sport and to promote States ’ commitments to
international conventions relevant for sport, and recalls that the Anti -Doping
Convention of the Council of Europe, the Council of Europe Convention on the
Manipulation of Sports Competitions and the Council of Europe Convention on an
Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other
Sports Events are open for accession by all States;
33. Invites the Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Council of
Europe to combine their efforts in seeking answers to global challenges, within their
respective mandates, and calls upon all relevant United Nations bodies to support the
enhancement of cooperation with the Council of Europe, as set out in relevant resolutions;
34. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session,
under the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other
organizations”, the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Council of Europe”, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General
Assembly at its seventy-fifth session a report on cooperation between the United
Nations and the Council of Europe in the implementation of the present resolution.
39th plenary meeting
26 November 2018
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Resolution 50/81, annex, and resolution 62/126, annex.
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