Sixth Committee (Legal) — 80th session
Measures to eliminate international terrorism (Agenda item 109)
- Authority:
- List of speakers (will be made available upon the closing of the list of speakers)
Documentation
- — Report of the Secretary-General
Additional documents from previous sessions:
- ?+? — Report of the Secretary-General
- — Report of the Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996
- — Letter dated 1 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
- — Letter dated 30 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations addressed to the Chairman of the Sixth Committee
- A/C.6/79/SR.37, , , | | | — Summary records of the 35th meeting (10 November 2022), the 27th meeting (9 November 2021), the 17th meeting (11 November 2020), the 34th meeting (11 November 2019) and the 33rd meeting (5 November 2018)
Summary of work
Background (source: )
The item entitled “Measures to prevent international terrorism which endangers or takes innocent human lives or jeopardizes fundamental freedoms, and study of the underlying causes of those forms of terrorism and acts of violence which lie in misery, frustration, grievance and despair and which cause some people to sacrifice human lives, including their own, in an attempt to effect radical changes” was included in the agenda of the twenty-seventh session of the General Assembly further to an initiative of the Secretary-General (, and ).
At its forty-sixth session, the Assembly changed the title of the item to “Measures to eliminate international terrorism” at its forty-sixth session (resolution ).
At its fiftieth session, the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit an annual report on the implementation of paragraph 10 of the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism (resolution ).
At its seventy-ninth session, the Assembly decided to recommend that the Sixth Committee, at the eightieth session of the Assembly, establish a working group with a view to finalizing the process on the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism as well as discussions on the item included in its agenda by resolution concerning the question of convening a high-level conference under the auspices of the United Nations, recognized the valuable dialogue and efforts of Member States towards resolving any outstanding issues, and encouraged all Member States to redouble their efforts during the intersessional period (resolution ).
Full texts of submissions ()
| State | Original submission | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | English | |
| Algeria | French | |
| Azerbaijan | English | |
| Belarus | Russian | English |
| Russian | English | |
| Belgium | English | |
| Cuba | Spanish | |
| Ecuador | Spanish | |
| Spanish | ||
| El Salvador | Spanish | |
| Germany | English | |
| Guyana | English | |
| Italy | English | |
| Kazakhstan | Russian | English |
| Russian | English | |
| Mexico | Spanish | |
| Peru | Spanish | |
| Philippines | English | |
| Qatar | Arabic | English |
| Russian Federation | Russian | English |
| San Marino | English | |
| Saudi Arabia | Arabic | English |
| Singapore | English | |
| Sri Lanka | English | |
| Togo | French | |
| Tunisia | Arabic | English |
| Ukraine | English | |
| Uzbekistan | Russian | English |
| Observer | Original submission | Translation |
| ASEAN | English | |
| CIS | Russian | English |
| CoE | English | |
| CSTO | Russian/English | |
| EU | English | |
| IAEA | English | |
| OSCE | English | |
