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

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 128Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, published in 1987.

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27 versions · 1981–2024

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15 topics

Consular Relations Diplomatic Relations Diplomats' Security Dispute Settlement Extradition Good Offices Guidelines Information Exchange Laws and Regulations Permanent Missions Prosecution Report Preparation Reporting Procedures Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What does this mandate say?

20 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes the importance of enhanced awareness throughout the world ofthe necessity of ensuring the protection, security and safety of such missions, representat 1ves and officiab, as well as of the role of the United Nat1ons in this regard;

Urges States to observe and to implement the principies and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations and, in particular, to take ali necessary measures in conformity with their international obligations to ensure effectively the protection, security and safety of ali diplomatic and consular missions and representatives officially present in territory under their jurisd1ction, including practicable measures to prohihit in their territories illegal activities of persons, groups and organi- I.ations that encourage, instigate, organiz.e or engage in the perpetration of acts against the security and safety of such missions and representatives;

Ca/Is upan States to take ali necessary measures at t he national and international levels to prevent any acts of v1olence against diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, as well as against missions and representa- ! 1ves to international intergovernmental organizations and offic1als of such organizations, and, in accordance with na- 1 mnal law and international treaties, to prosecute or extradite those who perpetrate such acts;

Recommends that States should co-operate closely 1hrough, interalia, contacts between the diplomatic and ~onsular missions and the receiving State, with regard to practica! measures designed to enhance the protection, ~ccurity and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives and with regard to exchange of information on the circumstances of ali serious víolations l hereof;

Calls upan States that have not yet done so to con- ~1der hecoming parties to the instruments relevant to t he protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;

Calls upan States, in cases where a dispute arises in ,·onnection with a violation of the principies and rules of mternational law concerning the inviolability of diplomatic and consular missions and representativcs, to make ,1se of the means for peaceful settlement of disputes, in- ·luding thc gm•d offices of the Secretary-General;

Rcquests:

Ali States to report to the Secretary-General as rromptly as possible serious violations of the protection, ~ecurity and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, as well as missions and representat ives with diplomatic status to international intergovern-• mental organizations;

The States in which the violation took place -and, 10 the extent p0ssible, the State where the alleged offender ,s present -·- to reportas promptly as possible on measure!-. :aken te, hring t he nffender to justice and eventually to ·ommunicate. ,n accordance with its laws, the final 0ut

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come ofthe proceedings against the offender, and on measures adopted with a view to preventing a repetition of such violations;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To circulate to all States, upon receipt, the reports (a) received by him pursuant to paragraph 9 above, unless the reporting State requests otherwise;

To draw the attention, when appropriate, of the States directly concerned to the reporting procedures provided for in paragraph 9 above, when a serious violation has been reported pursuant to paragraph 9 (a) above;

To address reminders to States where such violations have occurred and have been reported, if no followup report has been made pursuant to paragraph 9 (b) above by such States within a reasonable period of time;

To send, in due time before the issuance of bis yearly report on the present item, a circular note to all States requesting them to indicate whether they have any such violations, as referred to in paragraph 9 (a) above, to report for the preceding twelve months;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare guidelines embodying the relevant questions that States may wish to consider when reporting; the guidelines shall be circulated to all States with a view to strengthening the reporting procedures provided for in paragraph 9 above;

A/so requests the Secretary-General to invite 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;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-second session a report containing:

Information on the state of ratification of, and accessions to, the instruments referred to in paragraph 7 above;

The reports received and views expressed pursuant to paragraphs 9 and 12 above;

Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-second session any views he may wish to express on the matters referred to in paragraphs 11 and 13 above;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives: report of the Secretary-General".

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