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Security Council Resolution 635 (1989) [on Marking of Plastic or Sheet Explosives for the Purpose of Detection]

S/RES/635(1989)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Security Council, under agenda item 74 Marking of plastic or sheet explosives for the purposes of detection, published in 1989.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects
Air TransportAviation SecurityExplosivesInformation ExchangeTerrorism

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Condemns all acts of unlawful interference against the security of civil aviation;
2
Calls upon all States to co-operate in devising and implementing measures to prevent all acts of terrorism, including those involving explosives;
3
Welcomes the work already undertaken by the International Civil Aviation Organization, and by other international organizations, aimed at preventing and eliminating all acts of terrorism, in particular in the field of aviation security;
4
Urf;es the lntcnrntional Civil Aviation Organization to intensify it, work aimed at preventing all acts of tcrwrism again'1 international civil aviation, and in p:111 icula, its wnr k ()fl devising an international regime l()r the marking of plastic or sheet explosives for the purpose of detection;
5
Urges all States, and in particular the producers of plastic or sheet explosives, to intensify research into means of making such explosives more easily detectable, and to co-operate in this endeavour;
6
Calls upon all States to share the results of such research and co-operation with a view to devising, in the
Adopted unanimously at the
2898th meeting. 85 S/21026.
of 14 Jun~ I 989
Adopted unanimously at the
2869th meeting.
of 27 July 1989
86 Official Records of the Security Council, Forty-fourth Year, Sup- 88 Ibid., Forty-third Year, Supplement for January, February and plement for April, May and June 1989, document S/20699.
March J9R8, document S/]9447, annex.
87 Ibid., Forty-second Year, Supplement for July, August and Sep- 89 Ibid., Forty fourth }'rnr, Supplement for January, February and tember 1987, document S/19085, annex.
March 1989, document S/20491, annex.

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