"UN: Guidelines on Cooperation between the UN and the Business Community, 2000" [2005] ELECD 341; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 118

Section Title: UN: Guidelines on Cooperation between the UN and the Business Community, 2000

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

118. UN: Guidelines on Cooperation between the
UN and the Business Community, 2000

Commentary: Issued by the UN Secretary-General on 17 July 2000, the
Guidelines extracted below (footnotes omitted) provide guidance for private sector
relations with the UN. Annex 1 contains the Global Compact. Annex 2 contains an
explanatory background note on the use of the UN name and emblem (under Section
V) and illustrates the various modalities listed under Section VI. See further, UN
Secretary-General (1997), `Secretary-General, in address to World Economic Forum,
stresses strengthened partnership between UN, Private Sector', Press Release
SG/SM/6153; UN Secretary-General Report (2001), `Co-operation between the UN
and all relevant partners, in particular the private sector', UN Doc A/56/323. For
intergovernmental perspectives, see UN Department of Public Information (UNDPI)
(1998), `The UN and Business: New Dimensions in Co-operation: Case Studies from
the UN System', New York; UN Joint Inspection Unit (1999), `Report on Private
Sector Involvement and Cooperation with the UN System', Geneva, UN Doc
JIU/REP/99/6. For commercial perspectives, see PWBLF (2002), `Building
Partnerships: Co-operation between the UN and the Business Community', London.
See also, Nelson, J. (2002), `Building partnerships: co-operation between the UN
system and the private sector', UNDPI/IBLF: New York; www.un.org/partners/
business/index.asp.



I. Background
1. The business community has played an active role in the UN since its inception in 1945.
A number of UN organizations have a successful history of cooperating ...