United Nations Security Council Resolution 780

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 780 (Establishing a Commission of Experts to Examine and Analyze Information Submitted Pursuant to Resolution 771), S.C. res. 780, 47 U.N. SCOR at 36, U.N. Doc. S/RES/780 (1992).

Resolution 780 was Adopted by the Security Council at its 3119th meeting, on 6 October 1992. It authorised 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;" and requested that the "Secretary-General to report to the Council on the establishment of the Commission of Experts;" and to deliver to the Council the Commission of Experts conclusions in any recommendatins.[1]


The conclusions of the Commission of Experts was delivired to the President of the United Nations Security Council along with a letter from the United Nations Secretary-General (Boutros Boutros-Ghali) on 24 May 1994.[2][3]

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  1. ^ United Nations Security Council Resolution 780
  2. ^ Letter from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council 24 May 1994 (S/1994/674 - 27 May 1994)
  3. ^ Commission of Experts report and 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 was concluded in April 1994