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United Nations: Report of the Economic and Social Council Committee on an International Agreement on Illicit Payments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , July 1979 , pp. 1025 - 1040
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1979

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[Reproduced from U.N. Document E/1979/104 of May 25, 1979.

[The Committee on an International Agreement on Illicit Payments was established by Economic and Social Council resolution 1978/71 of August 4, 1978. The Committee held its first session in New York from January 29 to February 9, 1979; the second session was also held in New York, May 7-18, 1979. In accordance with the resolution establishing the Committee, a quorum of four states from each interested geographical group was necessary to conduct meetings. At both sessions, the Committee conducted informal and formal meetings in order to overcome the problem of the quorum requirement.

[The Committee's report is before the second regular session of the Economic and Social Council, July 4-August 3, 1979, under agenda item 9.]

References

1/ In its resolution 1978/71 the Economic and Social Council decided:

“in principle, to convene, if possible in 1980 and subject to a definitive decision by the Council at its second regular session, 1979, a conference of plenipotentiaries to conclude ah international agreement on illicit payments, bearing in mind the progress of the work in the Committee”.

2/ At the session of the Committee on Illicit Payments held in January 1979, the United Kingdom delegation proposed, in a conference room paper, an alternative version of article 4 as a basis for discussion. The United Kingdom delegation considers that it would be helpful to place on record that part of its proposal replacing article 4, paragraph 1 (c):

“In the case of a State which exercises a prohibition on the extradition of its nationals, over the offence referred to in article 1 (a) when committed by a national of that state.”

3/ This is the text of article 13 in the 1973 New York Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (see A/AC.188/L.2)

4/ The quotation only serves as an example for possible language and is not meant to indicate the number of ratifying States needed for the AGreement to enter into force.

5/ See article 20 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, opened for signature at New York on 7 March 1966.