Foreword

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FoReWoRD

By its resolution 1814 (XVII) of 18 December 1962, the General As sembly requested

the Secretar y-General to publish a Juridical Yearbook which would include certa in docu-

mentary materials of a legal character concerning the United Nations and related inter-

governmental organizations, and by its resolution 3006 (XXVII) of 18 December 1972,

the General Assembly made certain changes in the outline of the Yearbook. e present

volume, which is the iet h of the series, has been prepared by the Codi cation Division

of the Oce of Legal A airs.

Chapters I and II contain selec ted legislative texts and treaties, or provisions t hereof,

concerning the legal st atus of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organiz a-

tions.

Chapter III contains a general rev iew of the legal activities of t he United Nations and

related intergovernmental organiz ations, based on information provided by each organi-

zation.

Chapter IV contains selecte d treaties concerning international law concluded under

the auspices of the organizations concerned during the year in question, whether or not

they entered into force in that year in v iew of the sometimes considerable time lag between

the conclusion of the treaties and t heir entry into force.

Chapter V contains selected decisions of administrat ive tribunals of the United

Nations and related intergovernmental organi zations.

Chapter VI reproduces selected legal opinions of t he United Nations and related inter-

governmental organizat ions.

Chapter VII includes a list of judgments, advisory opinions and selected decisions

rendered by international tribuna ls in 2012.

Chapter VIII contains decisions given in 2012 by national tribunals relating to the

legal statu s of the various organ izations.

Finally, the bibliography, which is prepared under the responsibility of the Oce of

Legal Aai rs by the Dag Hammarskjöld Librar y, lists works and articles of a legal cha racter

relating to the work of the United Nations and related intergovernmenta l organizations.

Several documents published i n the Juridical Yearbook were supplied by the organi-

zations or Governments concerned at the request of the Secretariat. Treaty provisions,

legislative texts a nd judicial decisions may have been subject to minor editing by the Sec-

retariat.