A/RES/74/180. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2019

• Resolution Number: A/RES/74/180
• Year: 2019
• Session: 74th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

27 D ecember 2019

19-223 39 (E) 0 901 20

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Seventy -fourth ses sion

Agen da item 75

Respons ibility of States for int ernationall y wrongful ac ts

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 18 December 2019

[on th e report of the Sixth Committ ee (A/74 /421 )]

74/180. Respo nsibility o f State s for inter nation ally wrongful acts

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g its re solution 5 6/8 3 of 12 De cember 20 01, the anne x to which co ntains

the text of t he ar ticles on responsi bility of S tates for internat ional ly wr ongful acts,

reca lling also the repor t of the Int ernation al Law Co mmissio n on the wo rk of its fi fty-

third sessio n,

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and recalli ng fur ther its resolu tions 59/35 of 2 De cember 2004, 62/61

of 6 Dece mber 2 007, 65/19 of 6 Decemb er 201 0, 68 /104 o f 16 Decembe r 2013 and

71/1 33 of 13 Dece mber 2016 comm ending the arti cles to the attenti on of

Gove rnme nts ,

Emph asiz ing the c ontinuin g import ance of th e codifi cation an d progre ssive

deve lopment of inte rnationa l law, as referr ed to in Articl e 13, p aragrap h 1 (a), of the

Char ter of t he Unite d Nation s,

Noti ng that the s ubject of re sponsib ility of Sta tes fo r inte rnationa lly w rongful

acts is of ma jor imp ortance in relat ions be tween St ates,

Noti ng wi th ap preciatio n th e comp ilation of decis ions of int ernatio nal co urts,

tribu nals a nd oth er bodi es refe rring to the arti cles, prep ared b y the Secr etary -

Gene ral,

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Noti ng th e discus sion on w hether M ember St ates shou ld exami ne all pr ocedural

opti ons rega rding po ssible action o n the ba sis of t he art icles,

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Officia l Reco rds of t he Gen eral As sembly, Fifty -sixth Sessio n, Sup plemen t No. 10 and

corri gendu m (A/5 6/10 an d A/56/1 0/Co rr.1).

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See A/62 /62, A/ 62/6 2/C orr.1 , A/62/ 62/ Add. 1, A/6 5/76 , A/68/ 72, A/7 1/8 0, A/71 /80/ Add .1 a nd

A/74 /83.