Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country

A/RES/3320(XXIX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1975.

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63 documents · 1973–2025

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/172	Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country	2,541	–
2024	A/RES/79/130	Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country	2,357	–
2023	A/RES/78/116	Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country	2,307	–
2022	A/RES/77/114	Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country	2,164	–
2021	A/RES/76/122	Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country	2,063	–

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Diplomats' Security Host Country Relations

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Expresses its deep concern at incidents which have taken place at sorne missions accredited to the United Nations and which have involved the personnel of these missions;

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Strongly condemns any acts of violence against the premises of missions and their personnel as fundamentally incompatible with the status of such missions and personnel under intemational law;

Urges the host country to exert all-round efforts in order to take ali the necessary measures and ensure their effective implementation for the purpose of guaranteeing adequate security for missions and their personnel and creating normal conditions for the functioning of missions to the United Nations;

Urges the host country to take all necessary measures to apprehend, prosecute and punish those guilty of criminal acts against missions and their personnel;

Urges the host country to continue to implement

fully and effectively its Act for the Protection of Foreign Officials and Official Guests of the United States27 and, in particular, to take ali appropriate enforcement and preventive measures to make certain that demonstrations and picketing, especially where there is reason to believe that they may be accompanied by violence or may prevent the conduct of normal business of missions to the United Nations, are held in conformity with this law and closely monitored by the police to prevent any acts of violence against the missions accredited to the United Nations and their personnel;

Notes the difficulties which diplomatic missions and their personnel encounter from time to time when parking their automobiles, and the need to maintain public safety;

Appeals to the host country to review the measures with regard to the parking of diplomatic vehicles with a view to facilitating the desires and needs of the diplomatic community and to consider terminating the practice of serving summonses to diplomats;

Welcomes the diplomatic community's readiness to c<H>perate fully with the local authorities in solving traffic problems;

Requests ali members of the diplomatic community to respect the laws and regulations of the host country;

Believes that the host country, the Secretariat, the diplomatic community and the organizations concerned should in every way seek the improvement of relations and the promotion of mutual understanding between the diplomatic community and the local population in order to ensure conditions conducive to the effective functioning of the United Nations and the •missions accredited to it;

Notes with appreciation the efforts of the host country, the New York City community and the New York City Commission for the United Nations and for the Consular Corps to accommodate the needs, interests and requirements of the diplomatic community and to provide hospitality;

Decides to continue the work of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country in 1975, in conformity with General Assembly resolution 2819 (XXVI), with the purpose of examining ali matters falling within its terms of reference;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide ali necessary assistance to the Committee on Relations with the Host Country and to call its attention to issues of mutual concem relating to the implementation of the

27 United States Public Law 92-539 (see A/8871/Rev.1). Gf'neral AAe1Dbl,--Twenty-ninth Seul-

Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and lmmunities of the United Nations;

Requests the Committee on Relations with the Host Country to submit to the General Assembly, at its thirtieth session, a report on the progress of its work and to make, if it deems it neoessary, appropriate recommendations;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirtieth session the item entitled "Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country".

Reeolu1ion1 adopted on the reporta of the Sixth Committee 22 Lcaguc of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV, No. 2138,

18 Resolution 2200 A (XXI), anncx.

p. 65.

11 Resolution 1386 (XIV).

23 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 7.S, Nos. 970-973.

20 A/9669 and Add. l.

2• Oflicia/ Records o/ the General .As.umbly, Twenty-mlllh 11 Carnegie Endowmcnt for lntcrnational Pcacc, Tire Hague Session, Supplement No. 26 (A/9626). Conv~ntions and Declarations 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxi5 Resolution 169 (II). ford University Press, 191.S).

2s Resolution 22 A (1).

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