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9.
Decides to establish an Ad Hoc Committee, open to all States
Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies or of the
International Atomic Energy Agency, to elaborate an international convention
for the suppression of terrorist bombings and, subsequently, an international
convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism, to supplement
related existing international instruments, and thereafter to address means of
further developing a comprehensive legal framework of conventions dealing with
international terrorism;
10.
Decides also that the Ad Hoc Committee will meet from 24 February
to 7 March 1997 to prepare the text of a draft international convention for
the suppression of terrorist bombings, and recommends that work continue
during the fifty-second session of the General Assembly from 22 September to
3 October 1997 in the framework of a working group of the Sixth Committee;
11.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Ad Hoc Committee
with the necessary facilities for the performance of its work;
12.
Requests the Ad Hoc Committee to report to the General Assembly at
its fifty-second session on progress made towards the elaboration of the draft
convention;
13.
Recommends that the Ad Hoc Committee be convened in 1998 to
continue its work as referred to in paragraph 9 above;
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14.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second
session the item entitled "Measures to eliminate international terrorism".
88th plenary meeting
17 December 1996
ANNEX
Declaration to Supplement the 1994 Declaration on 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 Measures to Eliminate International
Terrorism adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 49/60 of
9 December 1994,
Recalling also the Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth
Anniversary of the United Nations,1
Deeply disturbed by the worldwide persistence of acts of international
terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including those in which States
are directly or indirectly involved, which endanger or take innocent lives,
have a deleterious effect on international relations and may jeopardize the
security of States,
Underlining the importance of States developing extradition agreements
or arrangements as necessary in order to ensure that those responsible for
terrorist acts are brought to justice,
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