A/RES/49/53 Page 2 1. Welcomes the report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-sixth session, 3/ including the recommendations contained therein; 2. Decides to establish an ad hoc committee, open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies, to review the major substantive and administrative issues arising out of the draft statute prepared by the International Law Commission and, in the light of that review, to consider arrangements for the convening of an international conference of plenipotentiaries; 3. Also decides that the Ad Hoc Committee will meet from 3 to 13 April 1995 and, if it so decides, from 14 to 25 August 1995, and submit its report to the General Assembly at the beginning of its fiftieth session, and requests the Secretary-General to provide the Ad Hoc Committee with the necessary facilities for the performance of its work; 4. Invites States to submit to the Secretary-General, before 15 March 1995, written comments on the draft statute for an international criminal court, and requests the Secretary-General to invite such comments from relevant international organs; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Ad Hoc Committee a preliminary report with provisional estimates of the staffing, structure and costs of the establishment and operation of an international criminal court; 6. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fiftieth session an item entitled "Establishment of an international criminal court", in order to study the report of the Ad Hoc Committee and the written comments submitted by States and to decide on the convening of an international conference of plenipotentiaries to conclude a convention on the establishment of an international criminal court, including on the timing and duration of the conference. 84th plenary meeting 9 December 1994 ___________ 3/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/49/10).