Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations
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Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations and related
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1983
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Part
Two. Legal activities
of the
United
Nations
and
related
intergovernmental
organizations
CHAPTER
III.
GENERAL
REVIEW
OF THE
LEGAL
ACTIVITIES
OF THE
UNITED NATIONS
AND
RELATED
INTERGOVERNMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS
A.
GENERAL REVIEW
OF THE
LEGAL ACTIVITIES
OF THE
UNITED NATIONS
1.
Disarmament
and
related matters
71
2.
Other political
and
security questions
81
3.
Economic, social, humanitarian
and
cultural questions
83
4. Law of the sea 93
5.
International Court
of
Justice
94
6.
International
Law
Commission
95
7.
United Nations Commission
on
International Trade
Law 96
8.
Legal questions dealt with
by the
Sixth Committee
of the
General Assembly
and
by
ad hoc
legal bodies
98
9.
Co-operation between
the
United Nations
and the
Asian-African
Legal Consultative
Committee
103
10.
United Nations Institute
for
Training
and
Research
103
B.
GENERAL REVIEW
OF THE
LEGAL ACTIVITIES
OF
INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
RELATED
TO THE
UNITED NATIONS
1.
International Labour Organisation
103
2.
Food
and
Agriculture Organization
of the
United Nations
104
3.
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and
Cultural Organization
110
4.
International Civil Aviation Organization
113
5.
World Health Organization
115
6.
World Bank
115
7.
International Monetary Fund
117
8.
Universal Postal Union
118
9.
World Meteorological Organization
121
10.
International Maritime Organization
125
11.
International Fund
for
Agricultural Development
127
12.
International Atomic Energy Agency
129
CHAPTER
IV.
TREATIES
CONCERNING
INTERNATIONAL
LAW
CONCLUDED UNDER
THE
AUSPICES
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
AND
RELATED INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
TREATIES CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL
LAW
CONCLUDED UNDER
THE
AUSPICES
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
United
Nations Conference
on
Succession
of
States
in
respect
of
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1983
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Chapter
III
GENERAL
REVIEW
OF THE
LEGAL ACTIVITIES
OF THE
UNITED
NATIONS
AND
RELATED INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
A.
General review
of the
legal activities
of the
United Nations
1.
DISARMAMENT
AND
RELATED
MATTERS'
(a)
Comprehensive approaches
to
disarmament
(i)
Follow-up
of the
special sessions
of the
General Assembly devoted
to
disarmament
The
general discussion relating
to
follow-up
of the
special sessions
of the
General Assembly
devoted
to
disarmament
was
held
in the
Disarmament Commission
and the
Committee
on
Disarmament.
Furthermore,
the
General Assembly
at its
thirty-eighth session considered certain proposals
submitted
in
that context dealing with broad
or
comprehensive questions, such
as the
review
of the
implementation
of the
Assembly's
recommendations
and
decisions taken
at one or the
other
of the
special
sessions,
confidence-building
measures, disarmament
and
international security,
and the
convening
of a
third special session
of the
Assembly devoted
to
disarmament.
Two
collective items
dealing with
the
overall question
of
follow-up
of its
special session
on
disarmament were placed
on
its
agenda.
The first,
which
has
appeared
on the
agenda since 1978,
was
entitled
"Review
of
the
implementation
of the
recommendations
and
decisions adopted
by the
General Assembly
at its
tenth
special
session";
the
second,
which
was
added
in
1982,
was
entitled "Review
and
implementation
of
the
Concluding Document
of the
Twelfth Special Session
of the
General
Assembly".
Member
States used
the two
items
to
cover many
and
varied proposals relating
to
matters which
had
been
initiated
at one or the
other
of the
special sessions
and
submitted
a
large number
of
documents
and
draft
resolutions
in
that context; this
led to the
adoption
by the
Assembly
of 26
resolutions
out of
the
overall total
of 62
disarmament resolutions adopted
at its
thirty-eighth session. Apart
from
their
consideration
of the
relevant individual questions
put
forward under
the
items,
a
number
of
participants
in
the
general
debates
both
in
plenary
and
First Committee
meetings2
made observations about
the
importance
of the
follow-up
of the
General Assembly's recommendations
and the
urgent need
to
build
upon
the
expectations which evolved from
the
agreement reached
at the
first
special session
on
disarmament
and
reaffirmed
at the
second,
in
1982.
No
more than during
any
other year since 1978, when
the first
special session
was
held,
was
any
significant beginning made
in
1983 towards
a
process
to
curb, halt
and
reverse
the
arms race,
on a
comprehensive basis
—
what would have been meant
by the
effective
implementation
of the
measures recognized
as
necessary
at
special sessions
of the
General Assembly devoted
to
disarmament.
As
to the
items directly related
to
follow-up, except
for
some
progress
on the
question
of
guidelines
for
confidence-building which
was
achieved
by the
Disarmament Commission,
any
other positive
signs were reflected mainly
in the
administrative
and
procedural
areas.
(ii)
General
and
complete disarmament
Although
general
and
complete disarmament under
effective
international control continued
to
be
regarded
as the
ultimate object
of all
disarmament efforts,
no
substantive
or
tangible progress
towards
it was
made
in the
various disarmament bodies
in
1983. General
and
complete disarmament
was
also
reaffirmed
as an
ultimate goal
in a
number
of
resolutions adopted
by the
General Assembly
at
its
thirty-eighth
session.
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