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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/52
17 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 137
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/49/738)]
49/52.
Draft articles on the law of the
non-navigational uses of international
watercourses
The General Assembly,
Having considered chapter III of the report of the International Law
Commission on the work of its forty-sixth session, which contains final draft
articles of and commentaries on the law of the non-navigational uses of
international watercourses, 1/
Noting that
draft articles to
convention by the
plenipotentiaries
the International Law Commission decided to recommend the
the General Assembly, and recommended the elaboration of a
Assembly or by an international conference of
on the basis of the draft articles,
Mindful of Article 13,
Nations, which provides that
make recommendations for the
development of international
paragraph 1 (a), of the Charter of the United
the General Assembly shall initiate studies and
purpose of encouraging the progressive
law and its codification,
Believing that successful codification and progressive development of
the rules of international law governing the non-navigational uses of
international watercourses would assist in promoting and implementing the
purposes and principles set forth in Articles 1 and 2 of the Charter,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth Session,
Supplement No. 10 (A/49/10), para 222.
95-76771
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