United Nations General Assembly Resolution 38

38. Draft Declaration on the Rights and Duties of States

The General Assembly resolves:


 * 1. To request the Secretary-General to transmit immediately to all Member States of the United Nations and to national and international bodies concerned with international law, the text of the draft Declaration on the Rights and Duties of States presented by Panama, with the request that they submit their comments and observations to the Secretary-General before 1 June 1947;


 * 2. To refer the said Declaration to the Committee established by the General Assembly during the present session to study methods of codification of international law, and to request the Secretary-General to transmit to this Committee the comments and observations as they are received from the Governments and instructions referred to in the preceding paragraph;


 * 3. To request this Committee to report thereon to the second regular session of the General Assembly;


 * 4. To include this matter in the agenda of the second regular session of the General Assembly.

Fifty-fifth plenary meeting, 11 December 1946.