Participation in General Multilateral Treaties Concluded Under the Auspices of the League of Nations

A/RES/1903(XVIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1964.

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Treaties Treaty-Monitoring Bodies

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

Recommends that the Commission should:

Decides that the General Assembly is the appropriate organ of the United Nations to exercise the power ;~onferred by multilateral treaties of a technical and nonoolitical character on the Council of the League of Nations to invite States to accede to those treaties;

Records that those Members of the United Nations which are parties to the treaties referred to above assent by the present resolution to the decision set forth in paragraph 1 above and express their r~solve to use their good offices to secure the co-operation of the other parties to the treaties so far as this may be necessary;

Request; the Secretary-General:

As depositary of the treaties referred to above, to bring to the notice of any party which is not a Member of the United Nations the terms of the present resolution;

( b) To transmit copies of the present resolution to States Members of the United Nations which are parties to those treaties ;

To consult, where necessary, with the States referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and ( b) above and with the United Nations organs and the specialized agencies concerned as to whether any of the treaties in question have ceased to be in force, have been superseded by later treaties, have otherwise ceased to be of interest for accession by additional States, or require action to adapt them to contemporary conditions;

To report on these matters to the General Assembly at its nineteenth session;

Further requests the Secretary-General to invite each State which is a Member of the United Nations or member of a specialized agency or a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, or has been designated for this purpose by the Generai Assembly, and which otherwise is not eligible to become a party to the treaties in question, to accede thereto by depositing an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations;

Decides to place on the provisional agenda of its nineteenth session an item entitled "General multilateral treaties concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations".

.7 759th plenary meeting,

!8 November 1963.

5 League of Nations, Official .I ournal, S Peciol Supplement No. 194, p. 57 (resolution of Jf \pri! 1946\ General All1embly-Ei1hteenth Session

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