Technical assistance to promote the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of international law
- Author: UN General Assembly
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Date:
16 December 1966
XXI. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
2204. Technical assistance to promote the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of international law
1. Authorizes the Secretary-General to carry out in 1967 the activities specified in his report, including the following items of direct assistance:
(a) The holding of a regional training and refresher course, in co-operation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
(b) The award of ten fellowships at the request of Governments of developing countries;
(c) The provision of a set of United Nations legal publications to up to fifteen institutions in developing countries;
(d) The provision of advisory services of experts, if requested by developing countries, within the framework of existing technical assistance programmes;
2. Accepts with satisfaction the offer of the United Republic of Tanzania to provide facilities for the regional training and refresher course to be held in Africa in 1967;
3. Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have made voluntary contributions towards the financing of the programme and reiterates its invitation to Member States, interested bodies and individuals to make voluntary contributions for this purpose;
4. Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for its participation in the programme;
5. Expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research for its activities in the field of international law and expresses the hope that it will continue and, if possible, expand these activities;
6. Decides that the programme established under General Assembly resolution 2099 (XX) shall henceforth be known as the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, and that accordingly the Advisory Committee set up under that resolution shall be known as the Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law;
7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its twenty-second session on the preparation and execution of the items of the Programme for performance in 1967 and 1968 and, following consultations with the Advisory Committee, to submit recommendations regarding the execution of the Programme in subsequent years;
8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its twenty-second session an item entitled "United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law".
1496th plenary meeting,16 December 1966.
[1] Ibid., agenda item 86, documents A/6492 and Add.1.
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