Reservations to multilateral conventions

UN General Assembly, Reservations to multilateral conventions, A/RES/598, UN General Assembly, 12 January 1952, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1952/en/7454 [accessed 16 September 2024]
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VI. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
598. Reservations to multilateral conventions

The General Assembly, Bearing in mind the provisions of its resolution 478 (V) of 16 November 1950, which (1) requested the International Court of justice to give an advisory opinion regarding reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and (2) invited the International Law Commission to study the question of reservations to multilateral conventions, General Assembly-Sixth Session Noting the Court's advisory opinion[1] of 28 May 1951 and the Commission's report,[2]2both rendered pursuant to the said resolution,

1. Recommends that organs of the United Nations, specialized agencies and States should, in the course of preparing multilateral conventions, consider the insertion therein of provisions relating to the admissibility or non-admissibility of reservations and to the effect to be attributed to them;

2. Recommends to all States that they be guided in regard to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the advisory opinion of the International Court of justice of 28 May 1951

3. Requests the Secretary-General:

(a) In relation to reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to conform his practice to the advisory opinion of the Court of 28 May 1951;

(b) In respect of future conventions concluded under the auspices of the United Nations of which he is the depositary:

(i) To continue to act as depositary in connexion with the deposit of documents containing reservations or objections, without passing upon the legal effect of such documents; and

(ii) To communicate the text of such documents relating to reservations or objections to all States concerned, leaving it to each State to draw legal consequences from such communications.

360th plenary meeting,
12 January 1952.
[1] See document A/1874. [2] See Official Records o the General Assembly, Sixth Session, Supplement No. 9.
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