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Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization

A/RES/40/78No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 141Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

49 versions · 1977–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/166
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  • 2023A/RES/78/111Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the OrganizationCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/109Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the OrganizationCompare with previous version
  • 2021A/RES/76/115Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the OrganizationCompare 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?

5 topics
Dispute SettlementInternational SecurityManualsPeaceWork Organization

What does this mandate say?

14 operative paragraphs
1
rakes note of the report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization;
2
Decides that the Special Committee shall convene its next session from 7 April to 2 May 1986;
3
Requests the Special Committee at its session in 1986:
a
lo accord priority, by devoting more time, to the question of the maintenance of international peace and security in all its aspects in order to strengthen the role of the United Nations, in particular the Security Council, and to enable it to discharge fully its responsibilities under the Charter in this field; this necessitates the examination, inter alia, of the prevention and removal of threats to the peace and of situations which may lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute; the Special Committee will work on all questions with the aim of submitting its conclusions to the General Assembly, in accordance with paragraph 5 below, for the adoption of such recommendations as the Assembly deems appropriate; in doing so, the Special Committee should work expeditiously on the working paper on the prevention and removal of threats to the peace and of situations that may lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute, or any revision thereof, as well as other proposals which might be made on that question, with a view to completing its consideration thereof;
h
To continue its work on the question of the peaceful settlement of disputes between States and, in this context:
i
To continue consideration of the proposal contained in the working papers on the establishment of a commission on good offices, mediation and conciliation; 19
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To examine the progress report of the Secretary- General on the elaboration of the draft handbook on the peaceful settlement of disputes between States;
Requests the Special Committee to keep the question of the rationalization of the procedures of the United Nations under active review;
5
Also requests the Special Committee to be mindful of the importance of reaching general agreement whenever that has significance for the outcome of its work;
6
Urges members of the Special Committee to participate fully in its work in fulfilment of the mandate entrusted to it;
7
Decides that the Special Committee shall accept the participation of observers of Member States, including in the meetings of its working groups;
8
Invites Governments to submit or to bring up to date, if they deem it necessary, their observations and proposals, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 3499 (XXX);
9
Requests the Secretary-General to render all assistance to the Special Committee;
10
Requests the Secretary-General to continue the preparation of a draft handbook on the peaceful settlement of disputes between States, on the basis of the outline elaborated by the Special Committee and in the light of the views expressed in the course of the discussions in the Sixth Committee21 and in the Special Committee,22 and to report to the Special Committee at its session in 1986 on the progress of work, before submitting to it the draft handbook in its final form, with a view to its approval at a later stage;
l l. Requests the Special Committee to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;
l 2. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled "Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization".

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