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LEGAL COMMITTEE ELECTS VICE-CHAIRMEN AND RAPPORTEUR
Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
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Hears Opening Statement by Chairman
The Sixth Committee (Legal) this afternoon elected Ernesto S.
Martinez Gondra (Argentina) and Vaclav Mikulka (Czechoslovakia)
as Vice-Chairmen, and Guillaume Pambou-Tchivounda (Gabon) as
Rapporteur.
Helmut Tuerk (Austria), the Chairman, was elected on 19
September.
The Committee will meet again at 3 p.m. on Monday, 25 September,
to consider the organization of its work.
Statements
In an opening statement, Mr. TUERK, the Chairman, said enhanced
awareness by States regarding the fundamental importance of
scrupulous respect for international law, as well as its
progressive development and codification, was essential for
speeding up the march towards realization of the age-old dream
of a peaceful world, devoting its energies and resources to the
promotion of the welfare of mankind. Members of the Committee
should contribute to reaching that goal.
To achieve the aim of consolidating and expanding the body of
universal international law, he continued, it was important that
the views of all segments of the international community be
taken into account. Only then would legal rules be universally
applied and become genuinely effective. The Committee should be
committed to proceed in the traditional spirit of mutual
understanding and compromise which had characterized its past
debates and decisions.
He said the agenda of the Committee again contained a number of
important questions with legal and far-reaching political
implications. He referred particularly to the problem of
international terrorism, the questions dealt with by the Special
Committee on the Charter of the United Nations, including the
proposal for a commission of good offices, mediation or
conciliation within the United Nations, and the drafting of an
international convention
against the recruitment, use, financing and training of
mercenaries. He believed it would be possible at this session
to produce a generally acceptable draft convention on
mercenaries.
The principal aim of the Committee should be directed towards
achieving substantive results which would be welcomed by the
international community so that the Committee could show it was
not an esoteric gathering of academics divorced from the
realities of the world, but rather a policy-oriented body of the
United Nations making important contributions to the goals of the
Organization.
Earlier, ACHOL DENG (Sudan), the outgoing Chairman of the
Committee, paid tribute to his successor for his professional,
intellectual and personal qualities, as well as his previous
service in the United Nations.
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