A/RES/56/93 Particularly concerned, in the context of practices which are contrary to human dignity, at recently disclosed information on the research being conducted with a view to the reproductive cloning of human beings, Determined to prevent such an attack on the human dignity of the individual, Aware of the need for a multidisciplinary approach to the elaboration by the international community of an appropriate response to this problem, 1. Decides to establish an Ad Hoc Committee, open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies or of the International Atomic Energy Agency, for the purpose of considering the elaboration of an international convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to invite the specialized agencies that work and have substantial interest in the field of bioethics, including, in particular, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Health Organization, to participate as observers in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee; 3. Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall meet from 25 February to 1 March 2002 to consider the elaboration of a mandate for the negotiation of such an international convention, including a list of the existing international instruments to be taken into consideration and a list of legal issues to be addressed in the convention, with the understanding that the Ad Hoc Committee will open with an exchange of information and technical assessments provided by experts on genetics and bioethics, and recommends that the work continue during the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly from 23 to 27 September 2002, within the framework of a working group of the Sixth Committee; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Ad Hoc Committee with the necessary facilities for the performance of its work; 5. Requests the Ad Hoc Committee to report on its work to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session; 6. Recommends that, upon the adoption of a negotiation mandate by the General Assembly, it may decide, taking into account the acute nature of the problem, to reconvene the Ad Hoc Committee, in order to open negotiations on the international convention referred to in paragraph 1 above; 7. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “International convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings”. 85th plenary meeting 12 December 2001 2