A/RES/76/65
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 105
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the
Mediterranean region
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/449, para. 7)]
76/65.
Strengthening of security and cooperation in the
Mediterranean region
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, including resolution 75/86 of
7 December 2020,
Reaffirming the primary role of the Mediterranean countries in strengthening
and promoting peace, security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region,
Welcoming the efforts deployed by the Euro-Mediterranean countries to
strengthen their cooperation in combating terrorism, in particular through the
adoption of the Euro-Mediterranean Code of Conduct on Countering Terrorism by the
Euro-Mediterranean Summit, held in Barcelona, Spain, on 27 and 28 November 2005,
Bearing in mind all the previous declarations and commitments, as well as all
the initiatives taken by the riparian countries at the recent summits, ministerial
meetings and various forums concerning the question of the Mediterranean region,
Recalling, in this regard, the adoption on 13 July 2008 of the Joint Declaration
of the Paris Summit for the Mediterranean, which launched a reinforced partnership,
named the “Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean”, and the common
political will to revive efforts to transform the Mediterranean into an area of peace,
democracy, cooperation and prosperity,
Welcoming the entry into force of the African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
(Treaty of Pelindaba) 1 as a contribution to the strengthening of peace and security
both regionally and internationally,
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