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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/144
7 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 93
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/49/604)]
49/144.
Status of the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination
The General Assembly,
Recalling its relevant resolutions adopted since 1973, the most recent
of which is resolution 47/78 of 16 December 1992,
Expressing its satisfaction at the entry into force on 3 December 1982,
of the competence of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
to receive and consider communications from individuals or groups of
individuals under article 14 of the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1/
Recalling its resolution 47/111 of 16 December 1992, in which it
welcomed the decision, taken on 15 January 1992 by the Fourteenth Meeting of
States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination, to amend paragraph 6 of article 8 of the Convention
and to add a new paragraph, as paragraph 7 of article 8, with a view to
providing for the financing of the Committee from the regular budget of the
United Nations, 2/
Recalling also the decision of the Fourteenth Meeting of the States
Parties that the amendments would enter into force once two thirds of the
States parties had notified the Secretary-General as depositary that they
agreed to the amendments,
Noting that despite that decision, the amendments have not yet entered
into force,
1/
Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.
2/
See A/49/499, annex I.
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