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

A/RES/35/168View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 114 Consideration 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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/124	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,507	97%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/108	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,551	100%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/139	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,551	97%Compare
2018	A/RES/73/205	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,508	89%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/145	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,350	98%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

21 reports · 2000–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/143	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/108
2022	A/77/208	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/139
2020	A/75/168	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/205
2018	A/73/189	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/145
2016	A/71/130	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/121

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 subject

Diplomats

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Deplores all violations of the principles and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations;

Strongly condemns in particular all acts of violence against diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;

Urges all States to observe and to implement the principles and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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;

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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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