GEN

Welcomes the signature of a cooperation agreement between the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and the Portuguese Language Unit of the Radio and Television Service of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat, in New York on 25 Apr. 2008; also welcomes the signature of a cooperation agreement between the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries on 8 Nov. 2007, on combating rural poverty in Portuguese-speaking developing countries, as well as the work done by the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, within the framework of the technical cooperation project signed in May 2008 with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN; further welcomes the establishment of the partnership between the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries and the International Labour Organization Office in Lisbon; encourages the Secretary-General and the Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries to initiate consultations with a view to considering the establishment of a formal cooperation agreement; and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 65th session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 68th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 63rd sess., Suppl. no. 49.