Proposals Include Informal Meetings with Experts, Split Sessions
Also Discusses Amending Administrative Tribunal Statute To Raise Standards for Judges and Ensure Their Independence
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abstaining States Decry Failure to Distinguish Legitimate Struggle for Self-determination from Terrorism