A/RES/51/160. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1996

• Resolution Number: A/RES/51/160
• Year: 1996
• Session: 51st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/51/160

30 January 1997

Fifty-first session

Agenda item 146

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/51/626)]

51/160. Report of the International Law Commission

on the work of its forty-eighth session

The General Assembly,

Having considered the report of the International Law Commission on the

work of its forty-eighth session,1

Emphasizing the importance of furthering the progressive development of

international law and its codification as a means of implementing the purposes

and principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and in the

Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations

and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United

Nations,2

Emphasizing also the role of the International Law Commission in the

fulfilment of the objectives of the United Nations Decade of International

Law,

Recognizing the desirability of referring legal and drafting questions

to the Sixth Committee, including topics that might be submitted to the

International Law Commission for closer examination, and of enabling the Sixth

Committee and the Commission further to enhance their contribution to the

progressive development of international law and its codification,

Recalling the need to keep under review those topics of international

law which, given their new or renewed interest for the international

community, may be suitable for the progressive development and codification of

international law and therefore may be included in the future programme of

work of the International Law Commission,

1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session,

Supplement No. 10 and corrigendum (A/51/10 and Corr.1).

2 Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex.

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