Ways and means for making the evidence of customary international law more readily available

UN General Assembly, Ways and means for making the evidence of customary international law more readily available, A/RES/686, UN General Assembly, 5 December 1952, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1952/en/7635 [accessed 08 December 2024]
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VII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
686. Ways and means for making the evidence of customary international law more readily available

The General Assembly, Considering the report[1] of the Secretary-General on ways and means for making the evidence of customary international law more readily available submitted in pursuance of General Assembly resolution 602 (VI) of 1 February 1952, Having regard to the detailed plans in the report as to the form, contents and budgetary implications of certain publications referred to in the aforesaid resolution and to the conclusions of the Secretary-General stated in the report,

1. Authorizes the Secretary-General to undertake, as soon as feasible, the publication of:

(a) A list of treaty collections, to be compiled taking into account the suggestions made during the debate in the Sixth Committee;

(b) A répertoire of the practice of the Security Council;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare and circulate to the governments of Member States a comparative study of the extent to which developments in the field of customary international law and selected legal activities of the United Nations can usefully be covered by an expansion of existing United Nation publications, by the launching of new special publications of limited scope and by a United Nations juridical yearbook; such study shall cover form, contents and budgetary implications.

400th plenary meeting,
5 December 1952.
[1] See document A/2170.
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