United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/69/14

by the United Nations

United Nations

A/RES/69/14

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General Assembly

Distr.: General 2 December 2014

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Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 123 (q)

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 November 2014

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.16 and Add.1)]

69/14. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 67/8 of 19 November 2012 on cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,

Having received the annual report for 2012 and the draft report for 2013 of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction,^[1]

1. Takes note of the annual report for 2012 and the draft report for 2013 of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons submitted on its behalf by its Director General;

2. Welcomes the effective and ongoing cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as demonstrated, inter alia, through the work of the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations for the Elimination of the Chemical Weapons Programme of the Syrian Arab Republic, which was brought to a close on 30 September 2014, as well as through the valuable support provided by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to the United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic, established by the Secretary-General on 21 March 2013;

3. Takes note of the report of the Third Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, held in The Hague from 8 to 19 April 2013;

4. Welcomes the preparations being undertaken by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to mark the 100th anniversary of the first large-scale use of chemical weapons in Ieper, Belgium, which falls on 22 April 2015;

5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-first 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 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons”.

48th plenary meeting
11 November 2014

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1. See A/69/171.