Decides to consider the question of capital punishment at its twenty-third session ;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to provide the General Assembly at that session with pertinent information prepared in the light of Assembly resolution 1918 (XVIII);
6 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Forty-s,cond Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/4322 and C.orr.1), chapter XVIII, draft resolution IV.
7 United Nations publication, Sales No.: 62.IV.2. General A1aembl:,-Twent:,-aeeond Senion
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Invitesthe Economic and Social Council:
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To instruct the Commission on Human Rights to consider the question of capital punishment, including the draft resolution submitted by the Council in resolution 1243 (XLII), and to transmit its recommendations on the matter through the Council to the General Assembly at its twenty-third session;
( b) To seek the views of the Consultative Group on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders concerning the draft resolution submitted by the Council in resolution 1243 ( XLII), requesting the Secretary-General to transmit these views to the General Assembly at its twenty-third session.
