A/RES/73/257
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 125 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.63)]
73/257.
Judgment of the International Court of Justice of 31 March 2004
concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals: need for
immediate compliance
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 41/31 of 3 November 1986,
Noting that, under the Charter of the United Nations, the International Court of
Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and that each Member
undertakes to comply with the decision of the Court in any case to which it is a party,
Aware of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice of 3 1 March 2004
in the case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals, 1 relating to violations of
the obligation to provide consular information without delay and to enable consular
officers to communicate with, have access to and visit their nationals and to arrange
for their legal representation, in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular
Relations of 24 April 1963, 2 with respect to 52 Mexican nationals who had been
sentenced to death in certain states of the United States of America, and in particular
of paragraph 153 (9), in which it was established that the appropriate reparation
consists in the obligation of the United States of America to provide, by means of its
own choosing, review and reconsideration of the convictions and sentences of
51 Mexican nationals included in the Judgment,
Aware also of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice of 19 January
2009 regarding the request for interpretation of the Judgment of 3 1 March 2004, 3 in
particular of paragraph 61 (2), in which it was established that the United States of
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/59/4),
chap. V, sect. A.23.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 4 (A/64/4),
chap. V, sect. B.12.
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