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Question of Antarctica Resolutions

A/RES/40/156[A]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 70 Question of Antarctica, published in 1986.

What else is in this group?

32 documents · 1984–2006
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2006).
YearSymbolTitleWord lengthText similarity
2006
A/RES/60/47

Question of Antarctica

657–
2002
A/RES/57/51

Question of Antarctica

668–
1999
A/RES/54/45

Question of Antarctica

662–
1997
A/RES/51/56

Question of Antarctica

628–
1995
A/RES/49/80

Question of Antarctica

825–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

A/RES/40/156 [A]

A

1
Requests the Secretary-General to update and expand the study on the question of Antarctica by address­ ing questions concerning the availability to the United Nations of information from the Antarctic Treaty Consul­ tative Parties on their respective activities in and their deliberations regarding Antarctica, the involvement of the relevant specialized agencies and intergovernmental organizations in the Antarctic Treaty system and the sig­ nificance of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in the southern ocean;
2
Requests the Secretary-General to seek the co-opera­ tion of all Member States and the relevant specialized agencies, organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, as well as the relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental bodies, in the preparation of the updated study by inviting them to transmit, as appropri­ ate, their views and any information they may wish to pro­ vide;
3
Requests the Secretary-General to submit the study to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;
4
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled "Question of Antarc­ tica".
HI. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the First Committee 109 Ibid .. Supplement No 5 I (A:40/51)
114 Offic1al Records of the G,•nera/ Assem/,/_v. Fortieth Sesswn. First Cam­ I ID Ibid., sect. 111.E.
mi/lee, 48th to 55th meetings; and 1h1d .. First Com,m1llee. Sessional Fasc1c/e, 111 See also sect. X.B. I, decision 4014 73 corrigendum.
11 S A/38/ 132-S/ 15675 and Corr. I and 2. annex. sect. Ill. paras. 122 and 112 Subsequently referred 10 as the Panel of Eminent Personahties on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development.
I 13 United Nations. Treat,• Series. vol 40:. No. 5778. p 72 116 A/40/854-S/l 76 lO and Corr. I. anne>. I. paras. 58-60.
I I 1 A'40"666. annex II. resolution CM/Res.988 (XLII).
118 A/39/583 (Part I) and Corr. I-) and A/39/583 (Part II) and Corr I. vols. 1-111.

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