United Nations
A/RES/60/43
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 January 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 108
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/60/519)]
60/43.
Measures to eliminate international terrorism
The General Assembly,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the
United Nations, 1
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2
Recalling further the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and reaffirming in
particular the section on terrorism, 3
Recalling the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism,
contained in the annex to General Assembly resolution 49/60 of 9 December 1994,
and the Declaration to Supplement the 1994 Declaration on Measures to Eliminate
International Terrorism, contained in the annex to resolution 51/210 of 17 December
1996,
Recalling also all General Assembly resolutions on measures to eliminate
international terrorism, and Security Council resolutions on threats to international
peace and security caused by terrorist acts,
Convinced of the importance of the consideration of measures to eliminate
international terrorism by the General Assembly as the universal organ having
competence to do so,
Deeply disturbed by the persistence of terrorist acts, which have been carried
out worldwide,
Reaffirming its strong condemnation of the heinous acts of terrorism that have
caused enormous loss of human life, destruction and damage, including those which
prompted the adoption of General Assembly resolution 56/1 of 12 September 2001,
as well as Security Council resolutions 1368 (2001) of 12 September 2001,
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1
See resolution 50/6.
See resolution 55/2.
3
See resolution 60/1.
2
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