Co-Operation Between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization

A/RES/2802(XXVI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1972.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations Guidelines Negotiation Report Preparation Tourism Tourism Development

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8 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes that an agreement between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization, defining the role and sphere of competence of the latter, should be concluded soon after the establishment of the organization;

Recommends that intensified negotiations to that end be held between the United Nations and the International Union of Official Travel Organisations with a view to finalizing a draft agreement;

Endorses the recommendation of the Economic and Social Council that the following guidelines be kept in mind during those negotiations:

Toe World Tourism Organization shall have the decisive and central role in the field of world tourism in co-operation with the existing machinery within the United Nations;

The fundamental aim of the World Tourism Organization shall be the promotion and development of tourism and particular attention shall be paid to the interests of the developing countries in this regard;

Recommends that the report of the Secretary- General on co-operation and relationships between the United Nations and the International Union of Official Travel Organisations10 should be revised in the light of the discussions at the eighth session of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, the fiftieth session of the Economic and Social Council and the twenty-sixth session of the General Assembly, and submitted to the Council at its fifty-third session in arder to enable the Council to give concrete directions to determine the course of the negotiations;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-third session, through the Committee for Programme and Coordination, a report on the activities of the United Nations family in the field of development of tourism;

Recommends that steps should be taken, as appropriate and with due regard to procedures of the United Nations Development Programme, to enable the designation of the World Tourism Organization as a participating and executing agency of the Programme in arder to assist that organization in carrying out its functions related to the devclopment of tourism.

14 December 1971.

s See E/4955.

9 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Fiftieth Session, Supplement No. 1 (El 5044), p. 25.

10 E/4861 and Corr.1.

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