Security Council resolution 780 (1992) [on establishment of the Commission of Experts to Examine and Analyse the Information submitted pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) on the situation in the former Yugoslavia]

Reaffirms its call, in paragraph 5 of resolution 771 (1992), upon States and, as appropriate, international humanitarian organizations to collate substantiated information in their possession or submitted to them relating to the violations of humanitarian law, including grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions being committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and requests States, relevant UN bodies, and relevant organizations to make this information available within 30 days of the adoption of the present resolution and as appropriate thereafter; requests the Secretary-General to establish, as a matter of urgency, an impartial Commission of Experts to examine and analyse the information submitted pursuant to resolution 771 (1992) and the present resolution, together with such further information as the Commission of Experts may obtain through its own investigations or efforts, of other persons or bodies pursuant to resolution 771 (1992), with a view to providing the Secretary-General with its conclusions on the evidence of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia; requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council on the conclusions of the Commission of Experts and to take account of these conclusions in any recommendations for further appropriate steps called for by resolution 771 (1992).

Adopted unanimously, 3119th meeting

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Concerns establishment of the Commission of Experts to Examine and Analyse the Information submitted pursuant to Security Council Resolution 771 (1992) on the situation in the former Yugoslavia.