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Exclusion from Participation in International Organisations: The Law and Practice Behind Member States’ Expulsion and Suspension of Membership. By Konstantinos D. Magliveras. The Hague, London, Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 298, Index. € 102; $135; £79.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2017

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References

1 Conditions of Admission of a State to Membership in the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, 1948 ICJ Rep. 57 (May 28).

2 Id. at 62.

3 Id. at 63.

4 Pact of the League of Arab States, Art. 18, Mar. 22, 1945, 70 UNTS 237, reprinted in 39 AJIL SUPP. 266 (1945).

5 Arab League Res. 314 (Apr. 13, 1950), 2 The Arab States and The Arab League: A Documentary Record 166 (Muhammad Khalil ed., 1962).

6 1968 UN JURID. Y.B. 195, 200, UN Doc. A/C.2/L.1030 (1968).

7 WMO Congress Res. 38 (Cg-VII), Seventh World Meteorological Congress, Abridged Report with Resolutions 136 (1975).

8 See Plenipotentiary Conf. Res. 31 (1973), in Int’l Telecomm. Union: Report on The Activities of The ITU in 1973, at 153 (1974); Int’l Telecomm. Convention Res. 14, in Int’l Telecomm. Convention: Final Protocol, Additional Protocols, Optional Additional Protocol, Resolutions, Recommendations and Opinions 243 (1982); ITU Plenipotentiary Conf. Res. 12 (1989), in Final Acts of The Plenipotentiary Conference: Optional Protocol, Decisions, Resolutions, Recommendations and Opinions 227 (1990).

9 See UN GAOR, 25th Sess., 1901st plen. mtg., at 25, UN Doc. A/PV.1901 (1970).

10 1970 UN Jurid.Y.B. 169-71,UN Doc. A/8160 (1970).

11 See, for example, the Security Council debate on whether Article 27(3) of the Charter precluded France from voting on a resolution that would have branded its role in a planned referendum in Mayotte as an interference in the internal affairs of the Comoros, UN Doc. S/PV. 1888, at 28-31 (1976).

12 Charter of the Organization of American States, Apr. 30, 1948, 2 UST 2394, 119 UNTS 3.

13 Later, the Protocol of Washington, 33 ILM 1005 (1994), amended the OAS Charter by (inter alia) adding a new Article 9 authorizing the suspension of a member state whose democratically constituted government has been overthrown by force.

14 Later in the book he makes a similar point regarding measures taken by the Commonwealth of Nations against Nigeria.

15 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, Sept. 2, 1947, 62 Stat. 1681, 21 UNTS 77.

16 OAS Res. VI, 8th Mtg. of Consultation of OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs, OAS Doc. OEA/Ser.F/11.8, 46 Dep’t St. Bull. 281 (1962).

17 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, May 23, 1969, 1155 UNTS 331, reprinted in 8 ILM 679 (1969).

18 Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, 1949 ICJ Rep. 174 (Apr. 11).