A/RES/68/113. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/113
• Year: 2013
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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/RES/68/113

General Assembly

Distr.: General

18 December 2013

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 82

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2013

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/68/465)]

68/113. Diplomatic protection

The Genera l Assem bly

,

Reca llin g

its r esoluti on 62/67 of 6 Decem ber 200 7, t he a nnex to wh ich

cont ains t he text of th e artic les on diplo matic p rotect ion, co mmendi ng the articl es to

the attenti on of G overnm ents,

Reca lling also

t hat the I nterna tional Law Com mission dec ided to r ecomme nd

to the G eneral Assem bly t he ela boratio n of a co nventio n on the b asis of the artic les

on d iploma tic pro tection ,

1

Emphasizing

the cont inuing impo rtance of the codifi cation and p rogress ive

deve lopmen t of i nternat ional l aw, as r eferred to in Articl e 13, p aragra ph 1 (

a

), o f the

Cha rter of the Un ited Na tions,

Not ing

that the sub ject of diplom atic pr otectio n is of major impor tance in

rela tions b etween States,

Taking int o ac count

the commen ts a nd o bserva tions of Govern ments

2

and the

disc ussion s he ld i n the Six th C ommitt ee, at t he s ixty-se cond, sixty -fifth and sixt y-

eigh th ses sions o f the G eneral A ssembl y, on diplo matic p rotecti on,

1.

Com mends o nce a gain

the ar ticles on dip lomatic pro tection

3

to th e

atte ntion of Gove rnment s, and invite s t hem to submi t i n w riting to the Se cretary -

Gene ral an y furth er com ments, includ ing co mments concer ning t he reco mmenda tion

by the Interna tional Law Com mission to elabo rate a con ventio n on the basis of the

articles;

1

2.

Decides

to i nclude in the prov isional ag enda of its seventy -first sess ion

the ite m en titled “Di plomat ic p rotecti on” and, with in t he framewo rk of a wo rking

grou p of t he Six th Com mittee , in th e light of th e writ ten co mments of Go vernme nts,

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1

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, A/65/182 and Add.1 and A/68/115 and Add.1.

3

Resolution 62/67, annex.