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Consideration of Effective Measures to Enhance the Protection, Security and Safety of Diplomatic and Consular Missions and Representatives

A/RES/35/168No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

27 versions · 1981–2024
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/124
  • 2024A/RES/79/124Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representativesLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/108Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representativesCompare with previous version
  • 2020A/RES/75/139Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representativesCompare with previous version
  • 2018A/RES/73/205Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representativesCompare with previous version
  • 2016A/RES/71/145Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representativesCompare 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?

1 topic
Diplomats

What does this mandate say?

9 operative paragraphs
1
Deplores all violations of the principles and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations;
2
Strongly condemns in particular all acts of violence against diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;
3
Urges all States to observe and to implement the principles and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations;
4
Urges in particular all States to take all necessary measures with a view to effectively ensuring, in conformity with their international obligations, the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives in territory under their jurisdiction, including practicable measures to prohibit in their territories illegal activities of persons, groups and organizations that encourage, instigate, organize or engage in the perpetration of acts against the security and safety of such missions and representatives;
5
Calls upon all States which have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the relevant conventions concerning the inviolability of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;
6
Calls upon all States, in cases where a dispute arises in connexion with violation of the principles and rules of international law concerning the inviolability of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, to make use of the means for peaceful settlement of disputes, including the good offices of the Secretary- General;
7
Invites all States to report to the Secretary- General serious violations of the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, and invites the State in which the violations took place to report also on measures taken to bring to justice the offenders and to prevent a repetition of such violations and eventually to communicate, in accordance with its laws, the final outcome of the proceedings against the offenders;
8
Requests the Secretary-General to circulate to all States, upon receipt, the reports received by him under the terms of paragraph 7 above, unless requested otherwise by the reporting State;
9
Requests the Secretary-General to invite all States to inform him of their views with respect to any measures
needed to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;
IO.
Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session on the reports and views expressed pursuant to paragraphs 7 and 9 above and invites him to submit any views he may wish to express on these issues;
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session an item entitled "Report of the Secretary-General on consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives"'.

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