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Status of International Organizations: Privileges and Immunities of their Officials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2017

Philip C. Jessup
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1944 , pp. 658 - 662
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Copyright © by the American Society of International Law 1944

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References

1 See this Journal, Vol. 38, pp. 105–106. The progress made by UNRRA in putting into effect the resolutions of its Council are summarized in: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, Report of the Director General to the Second Session of the Council (Council II, Document 1), Washington, 1944, pp. 87–95.

2 “International Public Corporations,” in Modern Law Review, Vol. 6, p. 185.

3 Article IX, Section 2, of the Articles of Agreement of the Fund, and Article VII, Section 2, of the Articles of Agreement of the Bank. United States Treasury, Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, N. H., July 1–32, 1944, pp. 19 and 77.

4 First Report to the Governments of the United Nations by the Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, Washington, August 1, 1944, p. 46.

5 Articles cited, Section 3.

6 Except that the title of Section 4 of Article IX of the Fund Agreement is “Immunity from other action” while the title of the comparable section of Article VII of the Bank Agreement is “Immunity of assets from seizure.”

7 Compare Resolution No. 32 of the First Council Session of UNRRA, First Session of the Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, p. 62. See also Jenks, C. Wilfred, “Some Problems of an International Civil Service,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 3, p. 93 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 On the general subject of immunities of this type, compare Jenks, , “Some Legal Aspects of the Financing of International Institutions,” Transactions of The Grotius Society, Vol. 28, pp. 87, 120Google Scholar.

9 The printed pamphlet, cited in note 3, above, which is here quoted for the texts, has a misprint in Sec. 9 (c) (ii): the word “of” appears in place of the word “or” between “place” and “currency.”