Sixth Committee (Legal) — 81st session
Responsibility of international organizations (Provisional agenda item 87)
- Authority: resolution 78/114
- List of speakers (will be made available upon the closing of the list of speakers)
Documentation
- A/81/83 — Report of the Secretary-General on the responsibility of international organizations: Compilation of decisions of international courts and tribunals
Summary of work
Background (source: A/81/100)
At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly, under the item entitled “Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-third session”, considered chapter V of the report of the Commission, which contained the draft articles on responsibility of international organizations together with a recommendation that the Assembly take note of the draft articles and that it consider, at a later stage, the elaboration of a convention on the basis of the draft articles. The Assembly took note of the articles, the text of which was annexed to resolution 66/100, commended them to the attention of Governments and international organizations without prejudice to the question of their future adoption or other appropriate action and decided to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-ninth session an item entitled “Responsibility of international organizations” (resolution 66/100).
At its seventy-eighth session, the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to update the compilation of decisions of international courts, tribunals and other bodies referring to the articles and to invite Governments and international organizations to submit information on their practice in that regard, as well as written comments on any future action regarding the articles, and also requested the Secretary-General to submit that material well in advance of its eighty-first session (resolution 78/114).
