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294 General Assembly-Thirty-ninth Session children and to recognize those children whose needs are not being met by existing services. Noting the usefulness of regional co-operation in matters regarding the well-being of children, Recognizing that the best child welfare is good family welfare and that, when family care is unavailable or inap- propriate, substitute family care should be considered, in conformity with national legislation, Convinced that adoption of the draft Declaration will promote the well-being of children with special needs, I. Appeals to Member States representing different legal systems to undertake consultations on the draft Dec- laration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Pro- tection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Interna- tionally, with a view to finding out the extent to which they would join the common endeavour of completing the work thereon; 2. Also appeals to the Member States that will take part in the consultations to submit, before the forty-first session of the General Assembly, a paper containing their common conclusions on the matter, including, if appropri- ate, their suggestions as to the procedure and forum for future work; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to circulate the paper referred to in paragraph 2 above to Member States with a view to obtaining their comments thereon, inclu- ding their views as to the procedure and forum for future work, and to submit a report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session; 4. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled "Draft Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally". 99th plenary meeting 13 December I 984 39/90. Review of the multilateral treaty-making process The General Assembly, Bearing in mind that multilateral treaties are an impor- tant means of ensuring co-operation among States and an important primary source of international law, Conscious, therefore, that the process of elaboration of multilateral treaties, directed towards the progressive development of international law and its codification, forms an important part of the work of the United Nations and of the international community in general, Aware of the responsibility which active involvement in the process of multilateral treaty-making places on Governments, Convinced that optimum use should be made of the finite resources available for the elaboration of multilateral treaties, Conscious of the desirability of consolidating and dis- seminating information on the procedures followed by the United Nations in the preparation and formulation of the text of multilateral treaties, 49 A/35/312 and Corr. I. 50 A/35/312/Add.l and 2 and Add.2/Con I 5 I A/36/553. 52 A/37/444. 53 A/36/553/Add. l and 2 and A J7 444 Add. I Taking into account that in certain important and spe- cialized areas interested parties have developed methods of negotiation of proven and continued value, Bearing in mind the important contribution of the Inter- national Law Commission to the preparation of multilat- eral treaties during the past thirty-six years, Aware that the Asian-African Legal Consultative Com- mittee has been reviewing certain aspects of multilateral treaty-making, Having taken note of the report of the Secretary-General on the review of the multilateral treaty-making process submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth ses- sion49 and of the views of Governments and of the Inter- national Law Commission contained in the addenda thereto, 50 Having taken note also of the subsequent reports of the Secretary-General submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth 51 and thirty-seventh52 sessions and of the replies and observations made by Governments and inter- national organizations, 53 Having considered the statements made at the current session during the debate in the Sixth Committee,54 Noting that the Working Group on the Review of the Multilateral Treaty-making Process, first established in accordance with General Assembly resolution 36/112 of I O December 1981, concluded its mandate, and taking note of the report of the Working Group, together with its final document on the review of the multilateral treaty- making process, 55 I. Expresses its appreciation to the Working Group on the Review of the Multilateral Treaty-making Process for the completion of its mandate and for its final document; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to circulate to all States Members the final document of the Working Group on the Review of the Multilateral Treaty-making Process; 3. Recommends to all States which are considering the initiation of a multilateral treaty within the framework of the United Nations to give consideration to the procedures set out in the final document of the Working Group on the Review of the Multilateral Treaty-making Process; 4. Also requests the Secretary-General to prepare, for information and possible use by Governments, a hand- book on multilateral treaty-making as described in para- graph 18 of the final document of the Working Group on the Review of the Multilateral Treaty-making Process, to be made available within two years; 5. Further requests the Secretary-General: (a) To examine, together with the specialized and related agencies, and other international organizations exercising depositary functions, the feasibility and finan- cial implications of consolidating, in a similar way to the volumes entitled Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, 56 the information regarding depositary functions performed by these international organizations; (b) To hold consultations on the feasibility and finan- cial implications of publishing, at regular intervals, consol- idated information regarding depositary functions per- formed by Governments; (c) To examine the regulations in force for giving effect to Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, with a view to their possible up-dating; 54 See Offic,al Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-ninth Session, Sixth ( i,mmittee, 59th, 60th and 64th meetings. ,s A/C.6/39/L.12. annex. 56 ST /LEG/SER.E/2 and Add. I. IX. Resolutions adopted on the reports of the Sixth Committee 295 (d) To invite the specialized and related agencies, and other international organizations in consultative status with the United Nations, to communicate to the Secretary- General information regarding their respective treaty- making activities; and to report thereon to the Sixth Committee; 6. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to continue to prepare for publication as soon as possible new s7 ST/LEG/6. editions of the Handbook of Final Clauses51 and the Sum- mary of the Practice oft he Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Agreements,58 taking into account relevant developments and practices in that respect. 58 ST!LEG/7. 99th plenary meeting 13 December 1984

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