Cooperation Between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

A/RES/65/235View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 122c Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

12 versions · 2003–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/290

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/290	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations	4,195	47%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/12	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations	3,010	53%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/15	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations	2,991	70%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/259	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations	2,280	62%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/255	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations	1,700	51%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Development Disaster Relief Economic Integration Human Rights Human Rights Advancement Myanmar Operational Activities Partnership Regional Organizations

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the entry into force on 15 December 2008 of the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which represents a historic milestone for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, reflecting a common vision and commitment to the development of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations community so as to ensure lasting peace, stability, sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and social progress in the region;

Continues to encourage both the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to further strengthen and expand their areas of cooperation, and in this context welcomes the signing on 27 September 2007 of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations on Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations cooperation at United Nations Headquarters, which aims at establishing a partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations that will encompass the full range of cooperation based on mutual benefits;

Encourages the United Nations to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations undertakings in all three of its community-building pillars through appropriate and concrete steps, as outlined in the Cha-Am Hua Hin Declaration on the Road Map for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations Community (2009–2015);

Commends the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for their efforts to hold regular meetings, on an annual basis, with the presence of the Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, during the regular session of the Assembly, with a view to further strengthening the cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations;

Continues to encourage the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to convene Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations Summits regularly, and underlines the importance of the presence thereat of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and heads of relevant United Nations departments, funds and programmes, and specialized agencies, and in this context welcomes the holding of the Third Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations Summit, in Hanoi on 29 October 2010;

Recognizes the value of partnership between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in providing timely and effective responses to global issues of mutual concern, in the context of partnership between the United Nations and regional organizations, and thus encourages the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to explore concrete measures for closer cooperation, particularly in the areas of food and energy security, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, peace and security, peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, climate change and disaster management, as reflected in the statement of the Co-Chairs of the Third Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations Summit and the Joint Declaration on Association of Southeast Asian Nations-United Nations Collaboration in Disaster Management adopted at the Summit;

Commends the successful completion of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-led coordinating mechanism for post-Nargis relief and recovery efforts in Myanmar, and acknowledges the outcome achieved in assisting the post-Nargis relief work by the Tripartite Core Group comprising the Government of Myanmar, the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and the assistance provided by the international community to those in need;

Encourages cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, particularly through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, which are aimed at enhancing the promotion and protection of human rights through exchanges of best practices and capacity-building;

Encourages effective cooperation between member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the appropriate United Nations organizations in the delivery of operational activities in the area of development at the country level, particularly efforts to close the development gaps, including cooperation to support implementation of the Initiative for Association of Southeast Asian Nations Integration workplan II and the master plan on Association of Southeast Asian Nations connectivity;

Takes note of the efforts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to hold meetings with other regional organizations at the fringes of the sessions of the General Assembly to promote cooperation in support of multilateralism;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-seventh session the sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations”.

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