A/RES/61/36. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/36
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/36

General Assembly Distr.: General

18 December 2006

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 78

06-49659

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 4 December 2006

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/61/454)]

61/36. Allocation of loss in the case of transboundary harm

arising out of hazardous activities

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

that the International Law Commission at its fifty-third session

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completed the draft articles on prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous

activities and recommended to the General Assembly the elaboration of a

convention on the basis of the draft articles,

Recalling also

its resolution 56/82 of 12 December 2001,

Having considered

chapter V of the report of the Commission on the work of

its fifty-eighth session,

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which contains the draft principles on the allocation of loss

in the case of transboundary harm arising out of hazardous activities,

Noting

that the Commission decided to recommend to the General Assembly

that it endorse the draft principles by a resolution and urge States to take national

and international action to implement them,

3

Emphasizing

the continuing importance of the codification and progressive

development of international law, as referred to in Article 13, paragraph 1 (

a

), of the

Charter of the United Nations,

Noting

that the questions of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous

activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm are of major importance in

the relations of States,

Taking into account

views and comments expressed in the Sixth Committee on

chapter V of the report of the Commission on international liability in case of loss

from transboundary harm arising out of hazardous activities

3

of the report of the

Commission at its fifty-eighth session,

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 10 and corrigendum

(A/56/10 and Corr.1), paras. 91, 94 and 97.

2 Ibid., Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/61/10).

3 Ibid., para. 63.