as a].so adequate conslderatlon of the --opj.c in theSixth Connrittee itself. l"trentlon may be made of tlrreeother lterns in this connection, namely, the concluslonof a " Convention on Relations beudeen States and Inter_national organlzaticns'r and, the ,'convention on duccessionof S!3gss in respect of Trssg1g5" through dlplomatlc conferences ano tlre "Conventlon on Special liisslonsfi adopted by t}re General Assembly during lts twenty-fou: thsessicn j-n 1969. . From tire eighteerrtlr session onwards the attentionof the Sixth Committee has proqresslveJ,y been extended..to other areas with the rErcwing neeCs of the inter_national conannrnity. For example, tie topic ',prlnclplesof fnte rnationaL Law concerning Friendly Relations andCo-operation anong States Ln accordance wlth the charterof the United lJatlonsf was taken up in the Sixth Cormlttee from its seventeenth session ar:d even though a Speclal Connrittee was appo5.ntecl to deal rvith thistoplc, lt.vras debat,eC almost at each sesslon untl,L aDeclaration was approved on the subject at the twenty_flf,th session in 19?0. Consistent ra itlr the progress achj.eved in the protnotl-on of international. econonj.c co-operatlon the necessity was felt to embark on aprogramne in the fietd of internatlonal trade lavr anda Cornnrl ss ion (INCIIRAL) was .establlshed for the purposeat the twenty-f1sst session of the General Assembly in1966. The conslderaticn of the relrort of the t NCIIRAIJA/40/725 EngIt th page 6l became a reqular f,eature of the uork of the Sixth Co rlttee since its twenty-fourth session. Another ltem relatable to this flerd narnery " Proqlressive Developrnent of, tie Prlnciples and Norms crf International Law relating to the New International Economlc Order[ has been allocated to tlre S ixtfr Cotunl-ttee since its thirty- fifth sesslon and ttre report.of ttre uliITAR on thls issue has accordlnqly been placed for its consideratLon slnce Its tttlrty-sixth session. Focussing its attention on hunanitarlan law, consideration was given ln tlre s lxttl