A/RES/73/258
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
21 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 128 (n)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.72 and A/73/L.72/Add.1 )]
73/258.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/250 of 22 December 2016 on cooperation between
the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
Having received the annual report for 2016 and the draft report for 2017 of the
Organisation 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 2016 and the draft report for 2017 of
the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons submitted on its behalf by
its Director General; 1
2.
Notes with appreciation the ongoing work of the Organisation for the
Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with regard to the implementation of the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction; 2
3.
Commends the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the entry
into force of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the founding of the Organisation
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, held on 29 April 2017;
4.
Welcomes the effective and ongoing cooperation between the United
Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as set out in
the Agreement concerning the Relationship between the United Nations and the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; 3
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18-22639 (E)
See A/73/97.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1974, No. 33757.
Ibid., vol. 2160, No. 1240.
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