To guarantee the survival of its core components and key activities, the Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law must be funded through the Organization’s regular budget, delegates in the Sixth Committee (Legal) asserted today as deliberations on the matter began.
The scope and application of universal jurisdiction must be clearly defined to avoid abuse of the principle, which could endanger international law, order and security, speakers told the Sixth Committee (Legal) today.
Divergent views on the nature of its role and agenda emerged today, as the Sixth Committee (Legal) took up the work of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization.
As the Sixth Committee (Legal) took up the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the Chair of that Commission’s forty-seventh session highlighted the finalization and approval of a draft Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration.
Access to justice must be ensured if a society were to be truly based on the rule of law, Sixth (Legal) Committee delegations emphasized today as they continued their deliberations on the principle and shared national practices.
Finding a balance between the international and national dimensions of the rule of law was indispensable to furthering the principle’s just implementation, speakers told the Sixth (Legal) Committee as it opened deliberations on the topic.
In order to fully defeat terrorism, the international community must confront emerging threats posed by foreign fighters and evolving trends in communication technologies, speakers told the Sixth Committee (Legal) today as deliberations on measures to eliminate international terrorism continued.
Pointing to the rapid and destructive spread of terrorism and terrorist acts throughout the world, speaker after speaker urged the Sixth Committee (Legal) to overcome differences and find consensus on a draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism, as they began consideration of the matter.
Tuvako Nathaniel Manongi, Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania to the United Nations, was elected Chair of the Sixth Committee (Legal) on 18 June 2014.
