GA/L/2869
19 October 1995
World Court President Urges Greater Use Of Court's Advisory Mechanism in Conflict Prevention
The draft code of crimes against the peace and security of mankind should be limited to a circumscribed list of serious international infractions, the Sixth Committee was told this morning as it continued consideration of the report of the International Law Commission. The Commission has, for several years, been elaborating the draft code.
Aggression was a classic crime against mankind, stated the representative of Algeria. Rather than undertaking the "pointless exercise" of seeking to define that crime, the International Law Commission should rely on the definition established by the General Assembly in its resolution 3314 (XXIX).