Requeststhe Secretary-General to provide the Special Committee with the necessary facilities and
Convinced that a primary problem confronting the services; United Nations in the maintenance of international
5
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its peace remains the strengthening of the will of States twenty-third session an item entitled "Report of the to respect all obligations under the Charter,
Special Committee on the Question of Defining Ag-
Considering that there is a widespread conviction gression". that a definition of aggression would have considerable 1638th plenary numrsg, importance for the maintenance of international peace 18 Decm,ber 196'!.
• and for the adoption of effective measures under the
• • Charter for preventing acts of aggression,
Noting that there is still no generally recognized The Prt.ridmt of the Geiural Assembly, i" pur~, of definition of aggression,
paragraph 2 of lhe abow resol11tio11, oppoimed the ,,.,,,.J,ers of the Special CDfflmittee on the Question of De/iM•g Ag-
1
Recognizes that there is a widespread conviction gressio".12 of the need to expedite the definition of aggression;
The Special Committee will bt composed of lht followittg
2
Establishes a Special Committee on the Question Member Stoles: of Defining Aggression, composed of thirty-five Mem- EcuAIIOJl, ber States to be appointed by the President of the General Assembly, taking into consideration the principle of equitable geographical representation and the necessity that the principal legal systems of the world should be represented ;
3
Instructs the Special Committee, having regard to the present resolution and the international legal 12 See A/7061.
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Other deci•ion•
Law of treade1 (Item 86)
At its 1621st plenary meeting, on 6 December 1967, the General Assembly took note of the report of the Fifth CommitteeU relating to the administrative and financial implications of the question dealt with in paragraph 62 of the report of the Sixth Committee. a
