FPIF Special Report
September 2004

A Secure America
in a Secure World

App. 2: Major U.N. Conventions Against Terrorism

Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, signed at Tokyo on September 14, 1963.

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, signed at The Hague on December 16, 1970.

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on September 23, 1971.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons including Diplomatic Agents, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 14, 1973.

International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 17, 1979.

Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, signed at Vienna on March 3, 1980.

Protocol on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on February 24, 1988.

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, done at Rome on March 10, 1988.

Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf, done at Rome on March 10, 1988.

Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, signed at Montreal on March 1, 1991.

International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 15, 1997.

International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1999.

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Conventions Against Terrorism, at: <http://www.unodc.org/unodc/terrorism_conventions.html>

Executive Summary | Introduction | A Failed Policy | A New Framework | Changing Course | Endnotes
App. 1: Funding for Counterterrorism | App. 2: Major U.N. Conventions Against Terrorism |
App. 3: U.N. Security Council Resolutions Regarding Terrorism Post-September 11, 2001
Foreign Policy In Focus Task Force on Terrorism