International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (New York, 15 December 1997)
(Signatories: 58; Parties: 170)
It is a 1997 United Nations treaty designed to criminalize terrorist bombings.
The convention describes terrorist bombings as the unlawful and intentional use of explosives in public places with intention to kill, to injure, or to cause extensive destruction to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing some act.
The convention also seeks to promote police and judicial co-operation to prevent, investigate and punish those acts.
India signed the convention on 17 Sept, 1999 and ratified on ....
