Reaffirms its conviction that the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations has played, for over twenty-five years, and will continue to play an essential role in promoting co-operation and understanding among States, in creating normal conditions for the activities of diplomatic missions and representatives and in the progressive development of international law in this field;
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Notes with satisfaction that at present one hundred and forty-nine States are parties to the Convention;
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Recommends to States that have not yet become parties to the Convention to consider doing so at an early date;
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Stresses the importance of the process of codification and progressive development of international law in the field of diplomatic relations;
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Calls uponali States to observe strictly the provisions of the Convention in arder to create an appropriate atmosphere essential for the normal discharge by diplomatic missions of their functions;
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Urgesali States to take effective action at national and international levels to suppress terrorist and other acts of violence against diplomatic missions and representatives, to prosecute without delay the perpetrators of such acts and, in accordance with the Convention, to avoid abuses of diplomatic privileges and immunities.
27 United Nations, Treary Series. vol. 500, No. 7310, p. 95.
