ABSTRACT
Incessant efforts to find ways and means in order to free the civilized world of terrorism, or at least of support of terrorism, have been and are being made by member states of the international community, especially since 1972. These are mainly attempts to further the adoption of a treaty prohibiting terrorism in general or of treaties banning certain specific types of international terrorism. In 1972 the General Assembly of the UN established a 35-member ad hoc committee on International Terrorism. Its first and second sessions were held in New York in July/August 1973 and March 1977, respectively. Just recently, in April 1979, it terminated its third session, which, like the previous ones, was mainly a continuous general debate in which the different states expressed their views on how to react to international terrorism.
