A/RES/51/207. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1996

• Resolution Number: A/RES/51/207
• Year: 1996
• Session: 51st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/51/207

16 January 1997

Fifty-first session

Agenda item 147

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/51/627)]

51/207. Establishment of an international criminal

court

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolutions 47/33 of 25 November 1992 and 48/31 of

9 December 1993,

Recalling also that the International Law Commission adopted at its

forty-sixth session a draft statute for an international criminal court1 and

decided to recommend that an international conference of plenipotentiaries be

convened to study the draft statute and to conclude a convention on the

establishment of an international criminal court,2

Recalling further its resolution 49/53 of 9 December 1994, in which it

decided to establish an ad hoc committee, open to all States Members of the

United Nations or members of specialized agencies, to review the major

substantive and administrative issues arising out of the draft statute

prepared by the International Law Commission and, in the light of that review,

to consider arrangements for the convening of an international conference of

plenipotentiaries,

Recalling its resolution 50/46 of 11 December 1995, in which it decided,

in the light of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Establishment of an

International Criminal Court,3 to establish a preparatory committee, open to

all States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies or

of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to discuss further the major

substantive and administrative issues arising out of the draft statute

1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session,

Supplement No. 10 (A/49/10), para. 91.

2 Ibid., para. 90.

3 Ibid., Fiftieth Session, Supplement No. 22 (A/50/22).

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