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Organization of American States: Convention to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism*

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International Legal Materials , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , March 1971 , pp. 255 - 258
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1971

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[Reproduced from O.A.S. Document AG/doc.88 rev. l corr. 1 of February 2, 1971.

[The Convention was approved by the O.A.S. General Assembly by a vote of 13 to 1, with 2 abstentions. Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela voted in favor; Chile, against; and Bolivia and Peru abstained. Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay were not present. As of March 3, 1970, the signatories to the Convention are the thirteen states that cast affirmative votes in the O.A.S. General Assembly.

[The O.A.S. General Assembly Resolution concerning the study of matters pertaining to terrorism, approved on February 2, 1971, appears at I.L.M. page 259. The draft convention on terrorism and kidnapping, approved by the Inter-American Juridical Committee on September 26, 1970, appears at 9 International Legal Materials 1177 (1970). The Inter-American Juridical Committee's statement of reasons for the draft convention appears at 9 International Legal Materials 1250 (1970). O.A.S. General Assembly Resolution 4 of June 30, 1970, appears at 9 International Legal Materials 1084 (1970).]

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* [Reproduced from O.A.S. Document AG/doc.88 rev. l corr. 1 of February 2, 1971.

[The Convention was approved by the O.A.S. General Assembly by a vote of 13 to 1, with 2 abstentions. Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela voted in favor; Chile, against; and Bolivia and Peru abstained. Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay were not present. As of March 3, 1970, the signatories to the Convention are the thirteen states that cast affirmative votes in the O.A.S. General Assembly.

[The O.A.S. General Assembly Resolution concerning the study of matters pertaining to terrorism, approved on February 2, 1971, appears at I.L.M. page 259. The draft convention on terrorism and kidnapping, approved by the Inter-American Juridical Committee on September 26, 1970, appears at 9 International Legal Materials 1177 (1970). The Inter-American Juridical Committee's statement of reasons for the draft convention appears at 9 International Legal Materials 1250 (1970). O.A.S. General Assembly Resolution 4 of June 30, 1970, appears at 9 International Legal Materials 1084 (1970).]