A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/57 27 January 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 38 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [without reference to a Main Committee (A/51/L.52 and Add.1 and A/51/L.54)] 51/57. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 48/5 of 13 October 1993 on observer status for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the framework for cooperation and coordination between the United Nations and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe1 signed on 26 May 1993, as well as its resolution 50/87 of 18 December 1995 on cooperation between the two organizations, Recalling also the declaration at the 1992 Helsinki Summit by the heads of State or Government of the participating States of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe of their understanding that the Conference is a regional arrangement in the sense of Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations and as such provides an important link between European and global security,2 Acknowledging the increasing contribution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security in its region through activities in early warning and preventive diplomacy, including through the activities of the High 1 See A/48/185, annex II. 2 See A/47/361-S/24370, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-seventh Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1992, document S/24370. 97-76225 /...