Teaching of international law
- Author: UN General Assembly
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Date:
21 November 1947
II. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
176. Teaching of international law
1. To take appropriate measures to extend the teaching of international law in all its phases, including its development and codification, in the universities and higher educational institutions of each country that are under government control or over which Governments have some influence, or to initiate such teaching where it is not yet provided;
2. To promote similar teaching regarding the aims, purposes, structure and operation of the United Nations in conjunction with paragraph 1 above and in accordance with resolution 137 (II) adopted by the General Assembly on 17 November 1947, on the teaching of the purposes and principles, the structure and activities of the United Nations in the schools of Member States;
3. To give to the Secretary-General the fullest possible co-operation with a view to facilitating the preparatory work on the development of international law and its codification and to support any individual or private effort to these ends undertaken in their countries.
Hundred and twenty-third plenary meeting,21 November 1947.
[1] See Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly during the second part of its first session, pages 187-188.
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