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United Nations: International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1979

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Footnotes

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[Reproduced from U.N. Document A/C.6/34/L. 23 of December 4, 1979.

[The draft was approved by the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly on December 7, without vote. The General Assembly adopted it as Resolution 34/146 on December 17, 1979, without vote. There was aseparate vote on Article 9, with 125 in favor to 10 against, with 3 abstentions. It will be opened for signature on December 18.]

References

1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/34/39), sect. IV.