Consideration of the methods and procedures of the General Assembly for dealing with legal and drafting questions

VI. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
597. Consideration of the methods and procedures of the General Assembly for dealing with legal and drafting questions

The General Assembly, Considering that various ideas were expressed during the debate on the methods and procedures for dealing with legal and drafting questions, and in the draft resolutions and amendments submitted to the Sixth Committee concerning the scope of the problems, the methods for their solution and the nature of these methods, all of which testify to the complexity of the problems raised, Believing that in the circumstances further study of all the problems involved is necessary,

1. 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, Israel, 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;

2. 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 re-port thereon to the General Assembly at its seventh session;

3. 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 dealt with in the present resolution.

356th plenary meeting,
20 December 1951.
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