United Nations
A/RES/58/74
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2004
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 150
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2003
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/58/512)]
58/74. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and
their property
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/55 of 9 December 1991, 49/61 of 9 December
1994, 52/151 of 15 December 1997, 53/98 of 8 December 1998, 54/101 of
9 December 1999, 55/150 of 12 December 2000, 56/78 of 12 December 2001 and
57/16 of 19 November 2002,
Having considered the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional
Immunities of States and Their Property, 1 established pursuant to resolution 55/150,
Noting the adoption of the draft articles and the understandings by the Ad Hoc
Committee,
Noting also the broad support for the conclusion of a convention on
jurisdictional immunities of States and their property,
Stressing the importance of uniformity and clarity in the law applicable to
jurisdictional immunities of States and their property,
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on
Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property;1
2.
Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall be reconvened from 1 to
5 March 2004, with the mandate to formulate a preamble and final clauses, with a
view to completing a convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their
property, which will contain the results already adopted by the Ad Hoc Committee;
Requests the Ad Hoc Committee to report to the General Assembly at its
3.
fifty-ninth session on the outcome of its work;
4.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-ninth session the
item entitled “Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property”.
72nd plenary meeting
9 December 2003
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 22 (A/58/22).
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