Sixth Committee (Legal) — 81st session
Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its seventy-sixth and seventy-seventh sessions (Provisional agenda item 78)
- Authority: resolution 80/164
- List of speakers (will be made available upon the closing of the list of speakers)
Documentation
Summary of work
Background (source: A/81/100)
At its second session, the General Assembly, under the agenda item entitled “Establishment of an International Law Commission”, resolved to establish the International Law Commission, with a view to giving effect to Article 13, 1 (a), of the Charter of the United Nations and with the objective of promoting the progressive development of international law and its codification (resolution 174 (II)). The statute of the Commission, annexed to resolution 174 (II) (subsequently amended in resolutions 485 (V), 984 (X), 985 (X) and 36/39), provides that the Commission should submit reports to the Assembly.
At its fourth session, the Assembly adopted the resolution entitled “Approval of part I of the report of the International Law Commission covering its first session” (resolution 373 (IV)). The Assembly has had the item entitled “Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its … session” on its agenda since its sixth session (resolution 601 (VI)).
At its eightieth session, the Assembly decided that the seventy-seventh session of the International Law Commission should be held from 20 April to 29 May 2026 or from 27 April to 5 June 2026 and from 29 June to 7 August 2026, at United Nations Headquarters in New York or at the United Nations Office at Geneva, with due consideration given to the most cost-effective location, and stressed the importance of having a 12-week session in two parts. The Assembly also decided, without prejudice to the budgetary prerogatives of the Fifth Committee and to the authority of the Secretary-General, that no exceptional measures affecting the duration of the seventy-seventh session of the Commission should be taken by the Secretariat without consultation with the Bureau of the Sixth Committee, which should inform the Sixth Committee. The Assembly recommended that the debate on the report of the Commission at the eighty-first session of the Assembly commence on 26 October 2026 (resolution 80/164).
