Consideration of the Methods and Procdures of the General Assembly for Dealing with Legal and Drafting Questions

A/RES/597(VI)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1952.

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5 subjects

Appointment of Members Establishment Legal Drafting Members Rules of Procedure

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3 operative paragraphs

Establishes a special committee of fifteen members consisting of one representative of each of the following Member States: Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Indonesia, Iran, Jsrael, Sweden, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Venezuela, to meet at the Headquarters of the United Nations;

Requests the Special Committee to consider the documents, draft resolutions and amendments submitted to the Sixth Committee, as well as the records of its debates, to study the question further and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventh session;

Requests the Secretary-General to carry out appropriate studies, to collaborate closely with the Special Committee and to submit to it, as he may consider appropriate, proposals for the handling of the problems tlealt with in the present resolution.

20 December 1951.

A/C.1/608.

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