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The United Nations Starts Work on a Watercourses Convention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

John R. Crook  and
Stephen C. McCaffrey
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , April 1997 , pp. 374 - 378
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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References

1 GA Res. 49/52, UN GAOR, 49th Sess., Supp. No. 49, Vol. 1, at 293, UN Doc. A/49/49 (1994). See generally McCaffrey, Stephen C., The International Law Commission Adopts Draft Articles on International Watercourses , 89 AJIL 395 (1995);Google Scholar Rosenstock, Robert, The Forty-sixth Session of the International Law Commission , 89 AJIL 390, 392 (1995).Google Scholar

2 The report of the working group is UN Doc. A/C.6/51/L.3 (1996). The report of its subsidiary drafting group (containing texts of articles) is in UN Docs. A/C.6/51/NUW/WG/L.1, Corrs.l & 2; Adds.1 & 2 & Corr.1 to Add.2; and Adds.3 & 4 (1996). The report of the drafting group must be read together with the introductory statement by the group’s chairman, Professor Lammers, on October 25, 1996. See UN Doc. A/C.6/51/SR.24 (1996).

3 GA Res. 51/206 (Dec. 17, 1996).

4 See Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-sixth session, UN GAOR, 49th Sess., Supp. No. 10, at 196, UN Doc. A/49/10 (1994) [hereinafter ILC Report].

5 GA Res. 49/52, supra note 1.

6 See McCaffrey, supra note 1, at 399–401. The Helsinki Rules on Uses of the Waters of International Rivers were adopted by the International Law Association (ILA) in 1966. 51 ILA, Conference Report 484 (1966).

7 ILC Report, supra note 4, at 236.

8 McCaffrey, supra note 1, at 399–401.

10 Id. at 401–02.

10 Id. at 402.

11 GA Res. 49/52, supra note 1, preamble.

12 See, e.g., Water in Crisis (Peter H. Glieck ed., 1993).