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Ammon News - The Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly concluded its resumed session on Friday debating on whether to codify the International Law Commission’s draft articles on crimes against humanity into a convention.

The Sixth Committee (Legal) heard oral reports from co-facilitators on the draft articles’ five Thematic Clusters, as speakers emphasized the need to end such crimes, with some expressing readiness to negotiate a new international instrument.

Although delegations’ views varied on the way to reflect the principles of international law and the Charter, and whether the time was ripe for a new convention, the Chair of the Committee, Pedro Afonso, highlighted the common denominator of the importance of criminalizing, preventing and punishing these international crimes within the national legal systems of states.

“The United Nations is to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends,” he stressed, noting that “pure multilateralism” lays at the heart of it all. “This is what we have been trying to do this week,” he said.

Jordan participated in the committee's deliberations over the course of a full week.