A/RES/65/27. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/27
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/27

General Assembly Distr.: General

10 January 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 80

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2010

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/65/468)]

65/27. Diplomatic protection

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 62/67 of 6 December 2007, the annex to which

contains the text of the articles on diplomatic protection, commending the articles to

the attention of Governments,

Recalling also

that the International Law Commission decided to recommend

to the General Assembly the elaboration of a convention on the basis of the articles

on diplomatic protection,

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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 subject of diplomatic protection is of major importance in

relations between States,

Taking into account

the comments and observations of Governments

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and the

discussions held in the Sixth Committee, at the sixty-second and sixty-fifth sessions

of the General Assembly, on diplomatic protection,

1.

Commends

once again

the articles on diplomatic protection to the

attention of Governments, and invites them to submit in writing to the Secretary-

General any further comments, including comments concerning the recommendation

by the Commission to elaborate a convention on the basis of the articles;

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2.

Decides

to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-eighth session

the item entitled “Diplomatic protection” and, within the framework of a working

group of the Sixth Committee, in the light of the written comments of Governments,

as well as views expressed in the debates held at the sixty-second and sixty-fifth

sessions of the General Assembly, to further examine the question of a convention

on diplomatic protection, or any other appropriate action, on the basis of the above-

mentioned articles and to also identify any difference of opinion on the articles.

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1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/61/10), para. 46.

2 See A/62/118 and Add.1 and A/65/182 and Add.1.