Elaboration of a draft Convention on Territorial Asylum

UN General Assembly, Elaboration of a draft Convention on Territorial Asylum, A/RES/3272, UN General Assembly, 10 December 1974, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1974/en/6858 [accessed 22 March 2025]
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XXIX. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE
3272. Elaboration of a draft Convention on Territorial Asylum

The General Assembly, Having examined the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the question of territorial asylum,[1] Reaffirming the importance it attaches to the international protection of refugees as a principal function of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Noting the view of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme[2] that a conference of plenipotentiaries on territorial asylum should be called as soon as possible, Further noting the recommendation of the Executive Committee that the conference should be preceded by a meeting of a group of governmental experts to review the present text of the draft Convention on Territorial Asylum,[3]

1. Decides to consider at its thirtieth session the question of holding a conference of plenipotentiaries on territorial asylum;

2. Further decides to establish a Group of Experts on the Draft Convention on Territorial Asylum, composed of representatives of not more than twenty-seven States, designated by the President of the General Assembly after consultation with the different regional groups, on the basis of equitable geographical distribution;

3. Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to convene the Group of Experts, not later than May 1975 and for a maximum of ten working days, to review the present text of the draft Convention on Territorial Asylum;

4. Decides that the costs of convening the Group of Experts be met from the voluntary funds which are at the disposal of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

5. Requests that the report of the Group of Experts be submitted to the General Assembly at its thirtieth session and requests the Secretary-General to submit a proposal as to when such a conference could be convened, together with an assessment of the costs involved.

2311th plenary meeting
10 December 1974
[1] Ibid., Supplement No. 12C (A/9612/Add.3). [2] Ibid., Supplement No. 12A (A/9612/Add.1), para. 52 (f). [3] Ibid., Supplement No. 12C (A/9612/Add.3), annex.
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