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Legal Advisers Meet at UN Headquarters in New york

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Hans Corell
Hans Corell*
Affiliation:
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
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On October 29 and 30, 1990, a meeting was held of the heads of the offices responsible for international legal services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the member states of the United Nations—the Legal Advisers. The meeting was organized at the invitation of the Legal Advisers of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs 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. Some twenty-five Legal Advisers and thirty-two of their deputies or other representatives attended, including all five colleagues representing the permanent members of the Security Council.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 371 - 373
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1991

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1 The invitation was signed by Hans Corell (Sweden), Edward G. Lee (Canada), Janusz Mickiewicz (Poland), Prakash Shah (India) and Alberto Szekely (Mexico). In Canada and India, the initiative has now been taken over by Barry Mawhinney and P. S. Rao, respectively.

2 See GA Res. 45/40 (Nov. 28, 1990).

3 By GA Res. 45/41 (Nov. 28,1990), the Assembly recommended that the debate on the ILC’s next report begin on October 28, 1991. Accordingly, the next meeting of the Legal Advisers will be held on that day and, if so decided, on the following day.

4 Some very interesting statements were made on this subject in the Sixth Committee’s ILC debate in November 1990.

5 See the interesting study on this subject, with particular regard to the U.S. Department of State, made by a joint committee of the American Society of International Law and the American Branch of the International Law Association, printed supra at p. 358.