Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations

UNITED NATIONS

JURIDICAL YEARBOOK

Extract from:

Chapter III. General review of the legal activities of the United Nations and related

intergovernmental organizations

1976

Part Two. Legal activities of the United Nations and related intergovernmental

organizations

Copyright (c) United Nations

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CONTENTS

(continued)

Page

3.

4.

5.

6.

B.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Agreements relating to the United Nations Children's

Fund:

revised

model agreement concerning the activities

of

UNICEF

48

Agreements relating to the United Nations Development Programme 49

Agreements relating to the World

Food

Programme

51

Agreements relating to the United Nations Revolving

Fund

for

Natural

Resources Exploration

52

TREATY PROVISIONS

CONCERNING

THE

LEGAL STATUS

OF

INTERGOVERN-

MENTAL

ORGANIZATIONS RELATED

TO

THE

UNITED

NATIONS

Convention on the Privileges and Immunities

of

the Specialized

Agencies. Approved by the General Assembly

of

the United Nations

on

21

November 1947

54

Food

and

Agriculture Organization

of

the United Nations

55

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 55

International

Bank

for

Reconstruction and Development

69

International Atomic Energy Agency 70

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...

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B. GENERAL

REVIEW

OF

THE

ACTIVITIES

OF

INTERGOVERNMENTAL

ORGANIZA-

TIONS

RELATED

TO

THE

UNITED

NATIONS

1.

International

Labour

Organisation 100

2.

Food

and Agriculture Organization

of

the United Nations 101

3. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

..

105

4. International Civil Aviation Organization

......•...............

111

5. World

Health

Organization 114

6. World

Bank

115

7. International Monetary

Fund

117

8. World Meteorological Organization

.........•.................

120

9. Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization

..•.......

121

10. International Atomic Energy Agency

........................••

122

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

Convention on the Prohibition

of

Military

or

Any

Other

Hostile Use

of

Environmental Modification Techniques. Opened

for

signature

and

ratifi-

cation on 18

May

1977

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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

I.

DISARMAMENT AND RELATED MA

TIERS!

1.

DISARMAMENT

IN

GENERAL

(1)

General

and

complete disarmament

Consideration

by

the Conference

of

the

Committee

on

Disarmament

During the 1976 meetings of the Conference

of

the Committee on Disarmament

at

Geneva,2the discussion on general and complete disarmament took place mostly

within the framework

of

consideration of the question

of

mid-term review

of

the

Disarmament Decade and, to alesser degree, within the question

of

the convening of

aworld disarmament conference.

Consideration

by

the General Assembly3

At

the thirty-first session

of

the General Assembly, four resolutions were adopted

under the item "General and complete disarmament".

The

first concerned Strategic

Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) and

is

dealt with in Section 2

(4)

below.

The

second

concerned the convening

of

aspecial session of the General Assembly devoted to

disarmament and

is

examined in Section

(3)

below. Athird one dealt with safeguards

relating to the peaceful uses

of

nuclear energy by non-nuclear-weapon States

and

will

be dealt with in Section 2

(3)

below.

In

the fourth resolution

(31/189

Cof 21

December

1976)

relating to security guarantees

to

non-nuclear-weapon States, the

General Assembly inter alia expressed its conviction that only nuclear disarmament

resulting in the complete elimination

of

nuclear weapons would assure perfect security

in the nuclear era and requested the nuclear-weapon States,

as

afirst step towards a

complete ban on the use or threat

of

use of nuclear weapons, to consider undertaking,

without prejudice to their obligations arising from treaties establishing nUclear-weapon-

free zones, not to use

or

threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon

States not parties to the nuclear security arrangements

of

some nuclear-weapon Powers.

(2)

Effective measures to implement the purposes

and

objectives

of

the Disarmament Decade

Consideration

by

the Conference

of

the Committee

on

Disarmament

During the 1976 summer meetings

of

the Conference

of

the Committee on

Disarmament,4 three plenary meetings were devoted to adiscussion of the mid-term

1The above summary

has

been prepared on the

basis

of the United Nations Disar-

mament Yearbook,

vol.

I:

1976 (United Nations publication,

Sales

No. E.77.IX.2).

2

See

Official Records

oj

the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session, Supplement

No.

27

(A/31/27),

paras. 214-220.

3Ibid., Annexes, agenda item 49.

4Ibid., Supplement No. 27

(A/31127),

paras. 227-246.

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