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International Organizations: Accountability and Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

William E. Holder
William E. Holder*
Affiliation:
International Monetary Fund
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Can International Organizations Be Controlled? Accountability and Responsibility
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 97 , 2003 , pp. 231 - 236
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

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

2 IMF and World Bank, Enhancing the Voice and Participation of Developing and Transition Countries in Decision-makingat theWorldBank and Imf, Mar. 2003, available at <http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/DCS/DevCom.nsf>.

3 See C.F. Amerasinghe, Principles of the International Law of International Organizations 239 (1996):

Once the existence of international personality for international organizations is conceded, it is not difficult to infer that, just as organizations can demand responsibility of other international persons because they have rights at international law, so they can also be held responsible to other international legal persons because they have obligations at international law.

5 Report of the Working Group on Responsibility of International Organizations, UN Gaor, 54th Sess., para. 12, UN Doc.A/CN.4/L.622 (2002), available at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/sessions/53/54sess.htm>.

6 Id., para. 9.

7 See. J.H. Rayner (Mincing Lane) Ltd. v. Department of Trade and Industry [1989] 3 W.L.R. 969 (H.L.).