Sixth Committee (Legal) — 79th session
Measures to eliminate international terrorism (Provisional agenda item 110)
- Authority: resolution 78/115
Documentation
Documents will be listed as they become available.
Additional documents from previous sessions:
- A/78/221 — Report of the Secretary-General
- A/68/37 — Report of the Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996
- A/60/329 — Letter dated 1 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
- A/C.6/60/2 — Letter dated 30 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Sixth Committee
- A/C.6/77/SR.35, A/C.6/76/SR.27 | A/C.6/75/SR.17 | A/C.6/74/SR.34 | A/C.6/73/SR.33 — Summary records of the 35th meeting (10 November 2022), the 27th meeting (9 November 2021), the 17th meeting (11 November 2020), the 34th meeting (11 November 2019) and the 33rd meeting (5 November 2018)
Summary of work
Background (source: A/79/100)
The item entitled “Measures to prevent international terrorism which endangers or takes innocent human lives or jeopardizes fundamental freedoms, and study of the underlying causes of those forms of terrorism and acts of violence which lie in misery, frustration, grievance and despair and which cause some people to sacrifice human lives, including their own, in an attempt to effect radical changes” was included in the agenda of the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly further to an initiative of the Secretary-General (A/8791, A/8791/Add.1 and A/8791/Add.1/Corr.1). At that session, the Assembly decided to establish the Ad Hoc Committee on International Terrorism, consisting of 35 members (resolution 3034 (XXVII)).
The Assembly had the item on its agenda at its thirty-first session and biennially from its thirty-second to forty-eighth sessions and has had the item on its agenda annually since then, changing its title to “Measures to eliminate international terrorism” at its forty-sixth session (resolutions 31/102, 31/103, 32/147, 32/148, 33/19, 34/145, 34/146 (International Convention against the Taking of Hostages), 36/109, 38/130, 40/61, 42/159, 44/29, 46/51, 49/60 (Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism), 50/53, 51/210 (Declaration to Supplement the 1994 Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism), 52/164 (International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings), 52/165, 53/108, 54/109 (International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism), 54/110, 55/158, 56/88, 57/27, 58/81, 59/46, 59/290 (International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism), 60/43, 61/40, 62/71, 63/129, 64/118, 65/34, 66/105, 67/99, 68/119, 69/127, 70/120, 71/151, 72/123, 73/211, 74/194, 75/145, 76/121, 77/113 and 78/115 and decision 48/411).
At its fiftieth session, the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit an annual report on the implementation of paragraph 10 of the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism (resolution 50/53).
At its fifty-first session, the Assembly established an ad hoc committee to elaborate an international convention for the suppression of terrorist bombings and, subsequently, an international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism, to supplement related existing international instruments, and thereafter to address means of further developing a comprehensive legal framework of conventions dealing with international terrorism (resolution 51/210).
At its fifty-fourth session, the Assembly decided that the ad hoc committee should also address the question of convening a high-level conference under the auspices of the United Nations to formulate a joint organized response of the international community to terrorism in all its forms and manifestations (resolution 54/110).
At its seventy-eighth session, the Assembly allocated the item to the Sixth Committee, where statements in the debate were made by 93 delegations (see A/C.6/78/SR.1–5). The Assembly decided to recommend that the Sixth Committee, at the seventy-ninth session of the Assembly, establish a working group with a view to finalizing the process on the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism as well as discussions on the item included in its agenda by resolution 54/110 concerning the question of convening a high-level conference under the auspices of the United Nations, recognized the valuable dialogue and efforts of Member States towards resolving any outstanding issues, and encouraged all Member States to redouble their efforts during the intersessional period (resolution 78/115).
Full texts of submissions (A/79/...)
| State | Original submission | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | French | |
| Argentina | Spanish | |
| Azerbaijan | English | |
| Belgium | English | |
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Spanish | |
| Burundi | French | |
| Colombia | Spanish | |
| Cuba | Spanish | |
| El Salvador | Spanish | |
| Guatemala | Spanish | |
| Spanish | ||
| Spanish | ||
| Jordan | Arabic | English |
| Lebanon | Arabic | English |
| Oman | English/Arabic | |
| Qatar | English | |
| Russian Federation | Russian | English |
| San Marino | English | |
| Thiland | English | |
| Türkiye | English | |
| Ukraine | English | |
| Observer | Original submission | Translation |
| CIS | Russian | English |
| CoE | English | |
| EU | English | |
| IAEA | English | |
| OSCE | English | |
