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Fourth Legal Advisers’ Meeting at UN Headquarters in New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Barry Mawhinney
Affiliation:
Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada
Kim Girtel
Affiliation:
Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada

Extract

The fourth informal meeting of the heads of offices responsible for international legal services of the foreign ministries of the member states of the United Nations (the Legal Advisers) took place at UN headquarters in New York on October 25 and 26, 1993. The meeting, like the previous three, was organized at the invitation of the Legal Advisers of Canada, India, Mexico, Poland and Sweden, and with the assistance of the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General Carl-August Fleischhauer. Forty-eight Legal Advisers and thirteen of their deputies attended, together with nearly fifty other interested participants, including the chairman of the Sixth Committee, María del Lujan Flores, the chairman of the International Law Commission, Julio Barboza, the Secretary-General of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, Frank X. Njenga, a representative from Switzerland and a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Representatives of all five permanent members of the Security Council were present.

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Current Developments
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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References

1 The invitation was signed by Barry Mawhinney (Canada) on behalf of P. S. Rao (India), Luis Miguel Díaz (Mexico), Janusz Stanczyk (Poland) and Hans Corell (Sweden).

2 See 85 AJIL 371 (1991); 1992 Nordic J. Int'l L. 72; and 87 AJIL 323 (1993).

3 By Resolution 48/31 (Dec. 9, 1993), the Assembly recommended that the debate on the ILC's next report begin on October 24, 1994.