A/RES/75/137
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 82
Expulsion of aliens
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 15 December 2020
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/75/428, para. 6)]
75/137.
Expulsion of aliens
The General Assembly,
Having considered chapter IV of the report of the International Law Commission
on the work of its sixty-sixth session, which contains the draft articles on the
expulsion of aliens, 1
Noting that the International Law Commission decided to recommend to the
General Assembly (a) to take note of the draft articles on the expulsion of aliens in a
resolution, to annex the articles to the resolution, and to encourage their widest
possible dissemination; and (b) to consider, at a later stage, the elaboration of a
convention on the basis of the draft articles, 2
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,
Noting that the subject of the expulsion of aliens is of major importance in the
relations of States,
Taking note of the comments of Governments and the discussion in the Sixth
Committee at the sixty-ninth and seventy-second sessions of the General Assembly
on the subject, 3
Recalling its resolutions 69/119 of 10 December 2014 and 72/117 of
7 December 2017,
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20-17199 (E)
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/69/10),
para. 44.
Ibid., para. 42.
See A/C.6/69/SR.19, A/C.6/69/SR.20, A/C.6/69/SR.21, A/C.6/69/SR.22, A/C.6/69/SR.24,
A/C.6/69/SR.27, A/C.6/72/SR.14 and A/C.6/72/SR.15.
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