A/RES/74/188
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 80
Diplomatic protection
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/74/426)]
74/188.
Diplomatic protection
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 62/67 of 6 December 2007, the annex to which contains
the text of the articles on diplomatic protection, commending the artic les to the
attention of Governments,
Recalling also that the International Law Commission decided to recommend to
the General Assembly the elaboration of a convention on the basis of the articles on
diplomatic protection, 1
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 diplomatic protection is of major importance in
relations between States,
Taking into account the comments and observations of Governments 2 and the
discussions held in the Sixth Committee, at the sixty-second, sixty-fifth, sixty-eighth,
seventy-first and seventy-fourth sessions of the General Assembly, on diplomatic
protection,
1.
Commends once again the articles on diplomatic protection 3 to the
attention of Governments, and invites them to submit in writing to the Secretary -
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/61/10),
para. 46.
See A/62/118, A/62/118/Add.1, A/65/182, A/65/182/Add.1, A/68/115, A/68/115/Add.1, A/71/93,
A/71/93/Corr.1 and A/74/143.
Resolution 62/67, annex.
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