A/RES/79/122
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 80
Crimes against humanity
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 4 December 2024
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/79/470, para. 14)]
79/122.
United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on Prevention and
Punishment of Crimes against Humanity
The General Assembly,
Having considered chapter IV of the report of the International Law
Commission on the work of its seventy-first session, 1 which contains the draft articles
on prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity, 2
Recalling that the Commission decided to recommend the draft articles on
prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity to the General Assembly and
recommended the elaboration of a convention by the Assembly or by an international
conference of plenipotentiaries on the basis of the draft articles, 3
Emphasizing the continuing importance of the codification and progressive
development of international law, as referred to in Article 13, paragraph 1 (a), of the
Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling its resolutions 74/187 of 18 December 2019, 75/136 of 15 December
2020, 76/114 of 9 December 2021 and 77/249 of 30 December 2022,
Recalling also the written summary of the deliberations at the first resumed
session (2023) and the second resumed session (2024) of the Sixth Committee on the
draft articles on prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity and on the
recommendation of the Commission, 4 as well as the summary by the Chair of the
Committee, annexed thereto,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/74/10).
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. E.1.
3
Ibid., sect. C.
4
A/C.6/78/2.
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2
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