CIVIL LIBERTIES considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.' (United Nations General Assembly resolution 49/60 of 9 December 1994, annex, emphasis added). 3.3 During the period under review, this assertion was reiterated by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 55/158 of 12 December 2000. The Assembly also decided, in that resolution, that the Ad Hoc Committee of the Assembly should elaborate a comprehensive convention on international terrorism. The Commission welcomes these developments, and the spate of other recent decisions, taken variously in the UN Human Rights Commission, the UN General Assembly and the Security Council, to come to grips more firmly with the menace of international terrorism and the grave impact that it is having on human rights. The Commission has, for some years, expressed the view that there is urgent need for the early conclusion of a comprehensive convention on international terrorism. It commends the Government of India for playing a leading role in the efi^ort to achieve this objective. 3.4 The Commission has also noted that the United Nations General Assembly in the same resolution cited above, viz 55/158, ui^ed all States that have not yet done so to consider, as a matter of priority, becoming parties to the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (General Assembly resolution 52/164 annex) and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (General Assembly resolution 54/109, annex). It also called upon all States to enact, as appropriate, domestic legislation necessary to implement the provisions of those Conventions. 3.5 The Commission would like to recall that it had already urged that such action be taken in an Opinion that it pronounced on 14 July 2000 in connection with the Prevention of Terrorism Bill 2000. In that Opinion, the Commission had observed that there were now twelve global treaties pertaining to the subject of international terrorism. However, despite this array of international instruments, the Commission noted that it remained essential,.both to the cause of human rights and to the fight against terrorism, that the measures required to be taken under each of these Conventions were fully and meticulously under-taken, both in terms of appropriate legislation, where this may still be needed, and in terms of other practical arrangements essential to the effective implementation of these Conventions. The Commission had accordingly urged the Government of India to do so and, in particular, to enact a suitable law to deal with the financing of terrorism. ANNUAL REPORT 2000-2001 j 11