A/HRC/RES/26/29 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 17 July 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-sixth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 26/29 Contribution of parliaments to the work of the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and all relevant human rights instruments, Recalling successive resolutions adopted by the General Assembly since 2010, in particular its resolutions 65/123 of 13 December 2010 and 66/261 of 29 May 2012, in which the Assembly recognized the importance of the provision of continued parliamentary support for the work of the Human Rights Council, in particular its universal periodic review, Recalling also General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006 and Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, Recalling further its resolution 22/15 of 21 March 2013 on the contribution of parliaments to the work of the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review, and taking note with appreciation of the summary report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of the panel discussion on the theme, “Contribution of parliaments to the work of the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review”, held on 29 May 2013,1 Welcoming the efforts of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to contribute to the work of the United Nations, and in particular its contribution to the work of the Human Rights Council and United Nations human rights treaty bodies, Considering that the Human Rights Council and parliaments stand to gain considerably from exploring possible synergies to ensure that the universal periodic review has the greatest impact at the national level, 1 Available from www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session26/Pages/ListReports.aspx. GE.14-08752 (E) *1408752*