Forcible Diversion of Civil Aircraft in Flight

Calls upon States to take every appropriate m~asure to ~nsure that their respective national legislat10ns prov1de an adequate framework for effective legal measures against ali kinds of acts of unlawful interference with, seizure of, or other wrongful exercise of control by force or threat thereof over civil aircraft in flight;

Urges States in particular to ensure that persons on board who perpetrate such acts are prosecuted;

Urges full support for the efforts of the lnternational Civil A viation Organization directed towards the speedy preparation and implementation of a conv~ntion providing for appropriate measures, inter alía, w1th respect to making the unlawful seizure of civil aircraft a punishable offence and to the prosecution of persons who commit that offence;