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 concern ing the United Nations and related inter-

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

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

volume, which is the y-rst of t he series, has been prepared by the Codi cation Division

of the Oce of Legal A airs.

Chapters I and II contain selecte d legislative texts and treat ies, or provisions thereof, con-

cerning the legal s tatus of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizat ions.

Chapter III contains a general rev iew of the legal activ ities of the United Nations and

related intergovernmental organiz ations, based on information provided by each organiz ation.

Chapter IV contains selected t reaties concerning international law concluded under

the auspices of the organizations concerned during the yea r 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 administrative tribunals of t he Unit-

edNations and related intergovernmental organi zations.

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

governmenta l organizations .

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

rendered by international tribuna ls in 2013.

Chapter VIII contains decisions given in 2013 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 organiza-

tions or Governments concerned at the request of the Secret ariat. Treaty provisions, legisla-

tive texts and judicia l decisions may have been subject to minor editing by the Secreta riat.

is volume will appea r on the United Nations Juridical Yearbook’s website at

http://legal.un.org/unjuridicalyearbook/.