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Some Aspects of the Work of the Interim Committee of the General Assembly †

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Yuen-Li Liang
Yuen-Li Liang*
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Division of Development and Codification of International Law, United Nations Secretariat Department of the Journal
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Notes on Legal Questions Concerning the United Nations
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 1948 , pp. 887 - 900
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Copyright ©, 1948, by the American Society of International Law

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Footnotes

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Prepared at the editor's request by Mr. H. C. Kiang, Technical Counsellor, Chinese Delegation to the Interim Committee.

References

1 See this Journal , Vol. 42 (1948), pp. 435-439 for note on the establishment of the Interim Committee and its terms of reference.

2 See U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/5, Jan. 8, 1948, for Report of Sub-Committee One.

3 See U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/73, July 19, 1948, and A/AC.18/73/Add.l, July 21, 1948,for the Report of Sub-Committee Two. See U.N. Doe. A/605, Aug. 13, 1948, for Report of Interim Committee on the Study of Methods for the Promotion of International Cooperation in the Political Field.

4 See U.N. Doc. A/578, July 15, 1948, for the Report of the Interim Committee on the Problem of Voting in the Security Council.

5 See U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/84, Aug. 2, 1948, for the Report of Sub-Committee Four on the Advisability of Establishing a Permanent Committee of the General Assembly.

6 See U.N. Doc. A/583, July 22, 1948, for Report of the Interim Committee on the Problem of the Independence of Korea.

7 General Assembly Resolution 40(1), Dec. 13, 1946.

8 U.N. Doe. A/351, Aug. 22, 1947.

9 U.N. Doc. A/C.l/202/Rev.l, Oct. 10, 1947.

10 U.N. Doc. A/C.1/SR.113, Nov. 18, 1947, p. 3.

11 U.N. Doc. A/P.V.122, Nov. 21, 1947, p. 31.

12 General Assembly Besolution 117(11), Nov. 21, 1947.

13 U.N. Doe. A/578, July 15, 1948, p. 1. The Sub-Committee was composed of representatives of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, France,Guatemala, India, Norway, Siam, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

14 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/SC.3/3, March 26, 1948.

15 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/62, June 3, 1948, and A/AC.18/66, June 24, 1948.

16 Articles 28-32 of the United Nations Charter

17 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/62, June 3, 1948, and A/AC.18/66, June 24, 1948.

18 U.N. Doc. A/578, July 15, 1948

19 In connection with the proposal submitted by the Belgian Delegation to authorize the Interim Committee to request advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice (doc. A/AC.18/44), the Secretary General communicated to the Interim Committee the text of a telegram received from the President of the International Court of Justice,referring to the question of the summary procedure of the Court: “ Procedure advisory opinion requested urgently may be made even shorter than that of cases brought before Chamber summary procedure. By Article 66 Statute President may dispense with either written or oral proceedings. An urgent opinion may remain before the Courtfor six to nine weeks according complexity of the issue. Guerrero” (A/AC.18/82,July 28, 1948).

20 U.N. Doc. S/P.Y.202, Sept. 15, 1947, pp. 126-171

21 See Journal of the Security Council,July 11, 1946, p. 841.

22 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/SC.3/4, May 11, 1948.

23 U.N. Doe. A/AC.18/49, March 18, 1948, p. 3.

24 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/13, Part B, Jan. 14, 1948.

25 U.N. Doe. S/P.V.195, Aug. 26, 1947, p. 56.

26 U.N. Doc. A /A 0.18/50, March 18, 1948.

27 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/13, Part A, Jan. 14, 1948.

28 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/17, Feb. 10, 1948, and Corr. 1, A/AC.18/41, March 10, 1948.

29 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/12, Jan. 13, 1948, and A/AC.18/38, March 9, 1948.

30 Sub-Committee Two was composed of representatives of Australia, Belgium, Brazil,China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Sweden ,Venezuela, the United Kingdom and the United States

31 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/15, Jan. 28, 1948, and A/AC.18/30, Feb. 24, 1948.

32 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/18, Feb. 11, 1948, and A/AC.18/54, March 30, 1948.

33 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/24, Feb. 16, 1948.

34 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/39, March 9, 1948, and A/AC.18/49, March 18, 1948.

35 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/17, Feb. 10, 1948.

36 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/63, June 16, 1948.

37 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/73, July 19, 1948, p. 6.

38 These were the joint proposal by China and the United States, the Lebaneseproposal, with the amendments of the Dominican Republic, the Belgian proposal and the United Kingdom proposal.

39 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/73, July 19, 1948, p. 18.

40 it may be noted that the General Act of 1928 consists of forty-seven articles divided into four chapters which deal mainly with conciliation, judicial settlement and arbitration.This General Act is now binding upon twenty-two states, including Sweden and The Netherlands, the latter states acceding only to Chapters I (conciliation), II(judicial settlement) and IV (general provisions). The General Act was approved September 26, 1928, by a resolution of the League of Nations Assembly, which alsoinvited members of the League to become parties to the instrument.

41 P.C.I.J., Series B, No. 12, p. 27.

42 U.N. Doe. A/AC.18/63, June 16, 1948, and A/AC.18/SC.2/3, June 30, 1948.

43 U.N. Doe. A/AC.18/46, March 16, 1948.

44 U.N. Doc. A/AC.18/72, July 13, 1948.