United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/66/162
Distr.: General
26 March 2012
Sixty-sixth session
Agenda item 69 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2011
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/66/462/Add.2)]
66/162. Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in
Central Africa
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 55/105 of 4 December 2000 concerning regional
arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights,
Recalling also its resolutions 55/34 B of 20 November 2000 and 55/233 of
23 December 2000, section III of its resolution 55/234 of 23 December 2000, its
resolution 56/253 of 24 December 2001 and its resolutions 58/176 of 22 December
2003, 59/183 of 20 December 2004, 60/151 of 16 December 2005, 61/158 of
19 December 2006, 62/221 of 22 December 2007, 63/177 of 18 December 2008 and
64/165 of 18 December 2009 on the Subregional Centre for Human Rights and
Democracy in Central Africa,
Recalling further that the World Conference on Human Rights recommended
that more resources be made available for the strengthening of regional
arrangements for the promotion and protection of human rights under the
programme of technical cooperation in the field of human rights of the Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1
Recalling the report of the High Commissioner, 2
Taking note of the holding of the twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first and
thirty-second ministerial meetings of the United Nations Standing Advisory
Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, in N’Djamena from 9 to
13 November 2009, in Kinshasa from 26 to 30 April 2010, in Brazzaville from 15 to
19 November 2010 and in Sao Tome from 12 to 16 March 2011,
Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General, 3
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1
See A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 36, addendum
(A/56/36/Add.1).
3
A/66/325.
2
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