Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Volume:
16
Issue:
3
637
Abstract:
Since the early 1990s, the General Assembly (GA) of the United Nations has consistently attempted to contain international terrorism. The first major step was Resolution 49/60 of 3 December 1994, which embodied the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism. Under Resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, the General Assembly established an Ad Hoc Committee to develop a comprehensive legal framework on conventions dealing with international terrorism.
So far, the work of the Ad Hoc Committee has resulted in the adoption, on 15 December 1997, of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, which was opened for signature in January 1998. By virtue of GA Resolution 53/108 of 8 December 1998, the Ad Hoc Committee’s terms of reference for 1999 (its Third Session) included the drafting of two conventions: one on the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism and a second on the suppression of the financing of terrorism…[more]