Consideration of Effective Measures to Enhance the Protection, Security and Safety of Diplomatic and Consular Missions and Representatives

A/RES/42/154View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 133 Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, published in 1988.

What other versions does this mandate have?

27 versions · 1981–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/124

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/124	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,507	97%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/108	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,551	100%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/139	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,551	97%Compare
2018	A/RES/73/205	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,508	89%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/145	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives	1,350	98%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

21 reports · 2000–2024

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/143	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/108
2022	A/77/208	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/139
2020	A/75/168	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/73/205
2018	A/73/189	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/145
2016	A/71/130	Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/121

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Diplomats' Security Dispute Settlement Extradition Good Offices Information Exchange International Instruments International Law Prosecution Report Preparation Reporting Procedures Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Staff Security Treaties

What’s in this document?

22 operative paragraphs

IX.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;

Strongly condemns acts of violence against diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, as well as against missions and representatives to international intergovernmental organizations and officials of such organizations, and emphasizes that such acts can never be justified;

Emphasizes the importance of enhanced awareness throughout the world of the necessity of ensuring the protection, security and safety of such missions, representatives and officials, as well as of the role of the United Nations in this regard;

Urges States to observe and to implement the principies and rules of international law governing diplomatic and consular relations and, in particular, to take ali necessary measures in conformity with their international obligations to ensure effectively the protection, security and safety of ali diplomatic and consular missions and representatives officially present in territory under their jurisdiction, including practicable measures to prohibit in their territories illegal activities of persons, groups and organizations that encourage, instigate, organize or engage in the perpetration of acts against the security and safety of such missions and representatives;

Calls upan States to take ali necessary measures at the national and international levels to prevent any acts of violence against diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, as well as against missions and representatives to international intergovernmental organizations and officials ofsuch organizations, and, in accordance with national law and international treaties, to prosecute or extradite those who perpetrate such acts;

Recommends that States should co-operate closely through, inter alia, contacts between the diplomatic and consular missions and the receiving State, with regard to practica) measures designed to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives and with regard to exchange of information on the circumstances of ali serious violations thereof;

Calls upan States that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties to the instruments relevant to the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;

Calls upan States, in cases where a dispute arises in connection with a violation of the principies and rules of international law concerning the inviolability of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, to make use of the means for peaceful settlement of disputes, induding the good oflices of the Secretary-General, and requests the Secretary-General to offer, when he deems it appropriate, his good offices to the States directly concerned;

Requests:

Ali States to report to the Secretary-General as promptly as possible serious violations of the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives, as well as missions and representatives with diplomatic status to international intergovernmental organizations;

The State in which the violation took place-and, to the extent possible, the State where the alleged offender is present-to report to the Secretary-General as promptly as possible on measures taken to bring the offender to justice and eventually to communicate, in accordance with its laws, the final outcome of the proceedings against the offender, and to report on measures adopted with a view to preventing a repetition of such violations;

The States so reporting to consider using or taking into account the guidelines prepared by the Secretary- General;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To circulate to all States, upon receipt, the reports received by him pursuant to paragraph 9 above, unless the reporting State requests otherwise;

To draw the attention, when appropriate, of the States directly concerned to the reporting procedures provided for in paragraph 9 above, when a serious violation has been reported pursuant to subparagraph 9 (a) above;

To address reminders to States where such violations have occurred if reports pursuant to subparagraph 9 (a) above or follow-up reports pursuant to subparagraph 9 (b) above have not been made within a reasonable period of time;

To send, in due time before the issuance of his yearly report on the present item, a circular note to ali States requesting them to indicate whether they have any such violations, as referred to in subparagraph 9 (a) above, to report for the preceding twelve months;

Also requests the Secretary-General to invite States to inform him of their views with respect to any measures needed to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives;

Further requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-third session a report containing:

lnformation on the state of ratification of, and accessions to, the instruments referred to in paragraph 7 above;

The reports received and views expressed pursuant to paragraphs 9 and 11 above;

Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-third session any views he may wish to express on the matters referred to in paragraph 12 above;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-third session the item entitled "Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diploma tic and consular missiDns and representatives: report of the Secretarv-General".

25 See O./ficial Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixlh Session, Supp/ement No. 17 (A/8417), chap. 111, sect. A.

26 /bid., Forty-first Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/41/17), annex l.

27 A/42/485 and Add.1-5 and Add.5/Corr. l.

28 A/42/48\ anncx.

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