Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Assembly’s Legal Committee Is Told of Good Rate of Compliance with Judgments of International Court of Justice

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Assembly’s Legal Committee Is Told of Good Rate of Compliance with Judgments of International Court of Justice

As consideration of the International Law Commission’s report continued in the Sixth Committee today, the Committee also heard an address from the President of the International Court of Justice, which was then followed by an interactive dialogue with Committee members.

United Nations, Media, Share Goals of ‘Providing a Voice for the Voiceless’, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Dag Hammarskjöld Journalist Fellows

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United Nations, Media, Share Goals of ‘Providing a Voice for the Voiceless’, Deputy Secretary-General Tells Dag Hammarskjöld Journalist Fellows

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro’s remarks at the annual luncheon of the Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists, in New York, today, 1 November:

As Current Debate Ends, Legal Committee Members Discuss Guidelines for Ongoing Work on Topics Considered from International Law Commission Report

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As Current Debate Ends, Legal Committee Members Discuss Guidelines for Ongoing Work on Topics Considered from International Law Commission Report

As the Sixth Committee (Legal) concluded its current consideration of the International Law Commission’s annual report, the representative of Sri Lanka called on the Commission’s study group to draft broad guidelines or model clauses on the topic of the “most-favoured-nation clause”, a theme serving as a focus for discussion today along with “treaties over time”, the “obligation to extradite or prosecute” and “shared natural resources”.
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