Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Welcomes the decision of the Commission on Human Rights to extend for 2 years, on an experimental basis, the term of the mandate of the Working Group on Enforced of Involuntary Disappearances while maintaining the principle of annual reporting by the Group; appeals to all Governments, particularly those which have not yet replied to the communications addressed to them by the Working Group, to co-operate fully with the Group so as to enable it, with respect for its working methods based on discretion, to perform its strictly humanitarian role; encourages the Governments concerned to consider the wish of the Working Group, when such a wish is expressed, to visit their countries, thus enabling the Group to fulfil its mandate even more effectively; calls upon the Commission on Human Rights to continue to study this question as a matter of priority and to take any step it may deem necessary to the pursuit of the task of the Working Group when it considers the report to be submitted by the Group to the Commission at its 43rd session; requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Working Group with all necessary facilities.

Adopted without vote, 97th plenary meeting

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Adopted at the 97th plenary meeting, 4 Dec. 1986.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 41st session, 16 September-19 December 1986. - A/41/53. - 1987. - p. 198. - (GAOR, 41st sess., Suppl. no. 53).