UN General Assembly
1976

186. It is time the world community joined together to combat and end it. We must reject the spurious claim of such groups to promote justice by their barbarous actions; we must together work out effective means to bring these atrocities to an end, and we must complement the action we take by continuing our own sustained efforts both as individual States and through this world Organization to promote a more just and peaceful world order. As an immediate step all of us-every State Member of this Organization without exception -should join in a convention to combat the taking of hostages, as has been proposed by my colleague from the Federal Republic of Germany, so that the perpetrators are either extradited or brought, before a court in the country in which they were seized. This procedure is one which my own country has recently adopted on a reciprocal basis with the United Kingdom to deal with acts of terrorism committed in either of our two States.