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Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind

A/RES/1186(XII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1958.

What other versions does this mandate have?

10 versions · 1955–1987
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/41/75
  • 1987A/RES/41/75Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of MankindLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1986A/RES/40/69Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of MankindCompare with previous version
  • 1985A/RES/39/80Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of MankindCompare with previous version
  • 1984A/RES/38/132Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of MankindCompare with previous version
  • 1983A/RES/37/102Draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of MankindCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
AggressionCodes of ConductCrimes Against PeaceDefinitionInternational Security

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
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To ask the Secretary-General to refer the replies
Considering that the draft Code of Offences against of Member States to a committee composed of the the Peace and Security of Mankind, as formulated in Member States whose representatives have served on chapter III of the report of the International Law the General Committee at the most recent regular ses- Commission on the work of its sixth session,3 raises sion of the General Assembly, which committee shall problems related to that of the definition of aggression, study the replies for the purpose of determining when
Recalling General Assembly resolution 897 (IX) of it shall be appropriate for the General Assembly to consider again the question of defining aggression, and 4 December 1954, shall report to the Secretary-General when it has de- General Assembly resolution 1181
Considering termined that the time is appropriate, setting forth the
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of 29 November 1957 concerning the definition considerations which led to its decision;
of aggression,
• Ibid., Supplement No. 9 (A/3623).
1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twelfth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/3574).
"Ibid., Ninth Session, Supplement No. 9 (A/2693).
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Decides to defer consideration of the question of the draft Code of Offences against the Peace and Security of Mankind until such time as the General Assembly takes up again the question of defining aggression;
2
Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the draft Code to Member States for comment, and to submit their replies to the General Assembly at such time as the item may be placed on its provisional agenda.
11 December 1957.

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