United Nations
A/RES/58/314
General Assembly
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 59
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 1 July 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.64)]
58/314. Participation of the Holy See in the work of
the United Nations
The General Assembly,
Recalling that the Holy See became a Permanent Observer State at the United
Nations on 6 April 1964, and since then has always been invited to participate in the
meetings of all the sessions of the General Assembly,
Recalling also that the Holy See is a party to diverse international instruments,
including the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1 the Vienna Convention
on the Law of Treaties, 2 the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 3 and the
Protocol thereto, 4 the Convention on the Rights of the Child 5 and the Optional
Protocols thereto, 6 the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 7 the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 8 the Convention for the
Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 9 the Paris
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 10 the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 11 the main disarmament treaties and the Geneva
Conventions 12 and the Additional Protocols thereto, 13
Recalling further that the Holy See enjoys membership in various United
Nations subsidiary bodies, specialized agencies and international intergovernmental
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 500, No. 7310.
Ibid., vol. 1155, No. 18232.
3
Ibid., vol. 189, No. 2545.
4
Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791.
5
Resolution 44/25, annex.
6
Resolution 54/263, annexes I and II.
7
Resolution 39/46, annex.
8
Resolution 2106 A (XX), annex.
9
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 249, No. 3511.
10
Ibid., vol. 828, No. 11851.
11
Ibid., vol. 729, No. 10485.
12
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
13
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
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