Sixth Committee (Legal) — 71st session
Summary of action taken by the General Assembly
- Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly on items allocated to the Sixth Committee.
General information
During the seventy-first session, the Sixth Committee met from 3 October to 11 November 2016.
- Provisional programme of work for the seventy-first session (2016)
- Overall work programme for the seventy-first session (2016)
- Schedule of informal consultations
- Information on briefings and side events related to the work of the Sixth Committee
Agenda items allocated to the Sixth Committee
Click on the following links to obtain information, relevant documentation and summaries of the work of the Sixth Committee on each item at the 71st session.
- Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts (Agenda item 74)
- Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission (Agenda item 75)
- Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-ninth session
(Agenda item 76) - United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (Agenda item 77)
- Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-eighth session (Agenda item 78)
- Diplomatic protection (Agenda item 79)
- Consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm (Agenda item 80)
- Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts (Agenda item 81)
- Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives (Agenda item 82)
- Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (Agenda item 83)
- The rule of law at the national and international levels (Agenda item 84)
- The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction (Agenda item 85)
- The law of transboundary aquifers (Agenda item 86)
- Measures to eliminate international terrorism (Agenda item 108)
- Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (Agenda item 121)
- Programme planning (Agenda item 135)
- Administration of justice at the United Nations (Agenda item 145)
- Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (Agenda item 165)
- Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly (Agenda item 166)
- Observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly (Agenda item 167)
- Observer status for the Community of Democracies in the General Assembly (Agenda item 168)
- Observer status for the International Conference of Asian Political Parties in the General Assembly (Agenda item 169)
- Observer status for the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries in the General Assembly (Agenda item 170)
- Observer status for the International Youth Organization for Ibero-America in the General Assembly (Agenda item 171)
- Observer status for the Pacific Islands Development Forum in the General Assembly (Agenda item 172)
- Observer status for the International Chamber of Commerce in the General Assembly (Agenda item 173)
- Observer status for the Central American Bank for Economic Integration in the General Assembly (Agenda item 174)
