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Preparation of a New Treaty for the Settlement of International Disputes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2009

Louis B. Sohn
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In declaring the period 1990–1999 as the United Nations Decade of International Law, the General Assembly of the United Nations listed among the main purposes of that decade the need “to promote means and methods for the peaceful settlement of disputes between States, including resort to and full respect for the International Court of Justice”.

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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 3 , Issue 3: SPECIAL ISSUE 1990: THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: Reflections on International Dispute Settlement , December 1990 , pp. 51 - 57
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 1990

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References

1 G.A. Res. 44/23,44 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 21, U.N. Doc. A/44/49 (1990).

2 U.N. Doc. A/44/191 (1989) at 6–7.

3 Id. at 7–8.

4 U.N. Doc. A/44/585 (1989) at 3.

5 Id. at 5.

6 Id. at 3, 5.

7 91 British and Foreign Slate Papers 970; 26 Martens Nouveau Recueil (ser. 2) 920; 187 Parry's Consolidated Treaty Series 410.

8 J.B. Scott (ed.), Resolutions of the Institute of International Law 1 (1916). This draft was preceded, in turn, by an annotated text prepared for the Institute by Mr. Goldschmidt; for text see Id. at 205.

9 W.A. Bewes (ed.), Transactions of the International Law Association, 1873–1924, at 13 (1925).

10 100 British and Foreign States Papers 298; 3 Martens Nouveau Recueil (ser. 3) 360; 205 Parry's Consolidated Treaty Series 233.

11 49th Report of the Administrative Council of the Permanent Court of Arbitration 4 (1990).

12 93 L.N.T.S. 343; 4 Hudson, International Legislation 2529 (1932).

13 71 U.N.T.S. 101.

14 United Nations, Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, Status as at December 31,1989, at 33,921.

15 30 U.N.T.S. 55; Pan American Union, Inter-American Peace Treaties and Conventions (Pan-Am. T.S.16), at 60.

16 320 U.N.T.S. 243; Europ. T.S. No. 23.

17 31.L.M. 1116 (1964); L. Sohn (ed.), 1 Basic Documents of African Regional Organizations 69 (1971).

18 For two United Nations collections of such treaties and clauses, see L. Sohn (ed.), Systematic Survey of Treaties for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, U.N. Sales No. 1949. V.3; and P. Contini,(ed.), A Survey of Treaty Provisions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, 1949–1962, U.N.Sales No. 66.5.V. For a more recent collection of texts and materials on the settlement of international disputes, see K. Oellers-Frahm and N. Wühler, Dispute Settlement in Public International Law (1984).

19 See supra note 15, Art. 40.

20 An annotated draft treaty on the pacific settlement of international disputes, which tries to take into account the various treaties on the subject, prepared for the American Bar Association and circulated to other law societies around the world, may be found in the main periodical of the Section of International Law and Practice of that Association, 20 The International Lawyer 261–291 (1986).

21 For texts of these important documents, see G.A. Res. 37/10,37 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 51) at 261, U.N. Doc. A/37/51; and G.A. Res. 43/51,43 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 276, U.N. Doc. A/43/49.