A/RES/73/259
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 128 (q)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.71 and A/73/L.71/Add.1)]
73/259.
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling the aims and purposes of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,
as enshrined in the Bangkok Declaration of 8 August 1967, 1 in particular the
maintenance of close and beneficial cooperation with existing international and
regional organizations with similar aims and purposes,
Noting the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations, which came into force on 1 5 December 2008, 2
particularly on upholding the Charter of the United Nations and international law,
Noting with satisfaction that the activities of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations are consistent with the purposes and principles of the United Nations,
Recalling all previous resolutions on cooperation between the United Nations
and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 3
Recalling also the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations in 2017, under the chairmanship of the Philippines, and its resolution 71/317
of 19 July 2017 on the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 4
Welcoming the participation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in
the high-level meetings between the United Nations and regional organizations, as
well as the collaboration between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1331, No. 22341.
Ibid., vol. 2624, No. 46745.
Resolutions 57/35, 59/5, 61/46, 63/35, 65/235, 67/110, 69/110 and 71/255.
See A/73/328-S/2018/592, sect. II.
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