A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/206 16 January 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 144 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/51/624)] 51/206. Convention on the law of the nonnavigational uses of international watercourses The General Assembly, Bearing in mind Article 13, paragraph 1 (a), of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming its resolution 49/52 of 9 December 1994, by which it decided that the Sixth Committee should convene, at the beginning of the fifty-first session, as a working group of the whole to elaborate a framework convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses on the basis of the draft articles adopted by the International Law Commission, Noting that some progress was achieved in the elaboration of the convention, but that the Working Group of the Whole will need more time to complete its mandate, 1. Takes note of the report of the Working Group of the Whole;1 2. Decides to convene a second session of the Working Group of the Whole, for a period of two weeks from 24 March to 4 April 1997, to elaborate a framework convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses; 3. Also decides that on the completion of its mandate the Working Group of the Whole shall report directly to the General Assembly; 1 A/C.6/51/L.3. 97-76141 /...