Sixth Committee (Legal) — 80th session
Protection of persons in the event of disasters (Provisional agenda item 88)
- Authority: resolution 79/128
- List of speakers (will be made available upon the closing of the list of speakers)
Documentation
Summary of work
Background (source: A/80/100)
At its seventy-first session, the General Assembly, under the item entitled “Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-eighth session”, decided to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session an item entitled “Protection of persons in the event of disasters” (resolution 71/141).
At its seventy-ninth session, the Assembly decided to elaborate and conclude a legally binding instrument on the protection of persons in the event of disasters, without prejudice to the legal effects of any particular provisions contained therein, by the end of 2027 at the latest, at the dates and location and in accordance with the modalities to be determined by the General Assembly at its eightieth session. The Assembly also decided that the Sixth Committee should resume its session for up to five days by the end of April 2026 at the latest, in order to prepare a consolidated text including the draft articles and the proposals submitted by Governments in accordance with paragraph 6 of the resolution, within the framework of a working group of the Committee. The Assembly invited Governments to submit to the Secretary-General, no later than 31 December 2025, proposals for amendments to the draft articles, with a view to preparing the consolidated text that would serve as the basis for the negotiations of the legally binding instrument, and requested the Secretary-General to submit a compilation of all the proposals received to the working group (resolution 79/128).
