Press Release
ICJ/592
INTERNATIONAL COURT FIXES TIME-LIMITS FOR PLEADINGS BY PAKISTAN, INDIA, ON 10 AUGUST AERIAL INCIDENT
19991126(Reissued as received)
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Abstaining States Decry Failure to Distinguish Legitimate Struggle for Self-determination from Terrorism
Member States would be urged by the General Assembly to sign and ratify an international convention designed to cut off the sources of funding for terrorist activities, according to a draft resolution approved without a vote this morning by the Sixth Committee (Legal).
A draft resolution on the future work of the Special Committee on the United Nations Charter, approved this morning by the Sixth Committee (Legal), would envisage a shorter than usual session for the Charter Committee.
As speaker after speaker in the Sixth Committee (Legal) this morning stressed that international terrorism was a universal scourge demanding concerted international cooperation on several fronts, a number of States cited their own experiences of terrorism.
Speakers in the Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon expressed overwhelming support for a draft international convention on suppression of the financing of terrorism, and urged the committee to approve the text at this session.
The General Assembly would ask the Secretary-General to continue work on ways to help third States affected by Security Council sanctions, by a draft resolution approved by the Sixth Committee (Legal) this morning.
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