A/HRC/19/74 resolution 13/23 of 26 March 2010 (para. 15). Without setting the Advisory Committee a specific deadline, the Human Rights Council states that it will continue its consideration of the matter in 2012. 5. At the Advisory Committee’s seventh session, Ms. Boisson de Chazournes was appointed Rapporteur of the drafting group. The Chairperson of the drafting group, Mr. Seetulsingh, presented the report that the group had drafted. After discussing the report, the Advisory Committee tasked the drafting group with submitting a final report to the Advisory Committee at its eighth session. On 1 September 2011, the secretariat of the Advisory Committee sent out a questionnaire, and by October 2011 about 10 responses had been received. Eight Member States (Cameroon, Cuba, France, Greece, Honduras, Iraq, Serbia and Uruguay) and a number of NGOs sent their observations and comments to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 6. At its eighth session, the Advisory Committee considered and endorsed the present study for submission to the Human Rights Council at its nineteenth session. II. Basic documents on international cooperation in the field of human rights 7. Given the impossibility of citing all the relevant United Nations legal reference texts, a brief overview will suffice. The preamble of resolution 13/23 itself, for example, refers to many of the relevant texts. However, at this stage the main focus is on clarifying the legal framework for international cooperation in the United Nations system. It would be useful to supplement this overview with information on the practices of other international organizations, particularly at the regional level, and on experience gleaned from the development of multilateral and bilateral cooperation agreements. A. International cooperation in the Charter of the United Nations 8. International cooperation in the field of human rights has always been an important aspect of the mission of the United Nations. The Charter states that one of the purposes of the United Nations is to ―achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion‖ (Article 1, paragraph 3). Article 13 states that: ―The General Assembly shall initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of: (a) Promoting international co-operation in the political field and encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification; (b) Promoting international co-operation in the economic, social, cultural, educational, and health fields, and assisting in the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.‖ 9. Similarly, Chapter IX of the Charter, on ―international economic and social cooperation‖, provides, in Articles 55 and 56, that ―Members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organization‖ (Art. 56) in order to achieve the purposes set forth in the preceding article, including ―universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion‖ (Art. 55 (c)). The Chapter also provides for coordination between the 4