A/RES/73/209
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 90
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/73/558)]
73/209.
Protection of persons in the event of disasters
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/141 of 13 December 2016, in which it took note of
the draft articles on the protection of persons in the event of disasters adopted by the
International Law Commission at its sixty-eighth session, 1
Recalling also that the Commission decided to recommend to the General
Assembly the elaboration of a convention on the basis of the draft articles, 2
Noting with concern the increasing number of disasters in the world, as well as
their intensity and impact on affected populations,
Emphasizing the continuing importance of the codification and progressive
development of international law, as referred to in Article 13, paragraph 1 (a), of the
Charter of the United Nations,
Noting that the subject of the protection of persons in the event of disasters is
of major importance in the relations of States,
1.
Takes note of the views and comments expressed in the debates of the Sixth
Committee at the seventy-third session of the General Assembly on this topic, 3 as well
as the comments and observations received from Governments on the draft articles
on the protection of persons in the event of disasters and on any future action thereon; 4
2.
Also takes note of the draft articles on the protection of persons in the event
of disasters;1
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/71/10),
para. 48.
Ibid., para. 46.
See A/C.6/73/SR.31.
See A/73/229.
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