A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/31 24 January 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 143 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/48/612)] 48/31. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-fifth session The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-fifth session, 1/ Emphasizing the need for the progressive development of international law and its codification in order to make it a more effective means of implementing the purposes and principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and in the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations 2/ and to give increased importance to its role in relations among States, Recognizing the importance of referring legal and drafting questions to the Sixth Committee, including topics that might be submitted to the International Law Commission, and of enabling the Sixth Committee and the Commission further to enhance their contribution to the progressive development of international law and its codification, ________ 1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/48/10). 2/ Resolution 2625 (XXV), annex. /...