Chapter 6: International Organisations

United Nations

www.un.org.

Current information on UN from UK Mission to UN: International Law

http://www.ukun.org/

*International Organisations

The UK International Organisations Act 2005 covers a number of bodies whose status as international organisations might be uncertain without this legislation. Its coverage includes the Commonwealth Secretariat/Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), certain bodies established under the Treaty on European Union, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). Explanatory notes prepared by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office provide a helpful guide.

International Organisations Act 2005

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2005/ukpga_20050020_en.pdf

Explanatory Notes to International Organisations Act

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/en2005/ukpgaen_20050020_en.pdf

Footnote links:

2 The International Law Commission in its work on Responsibility of International Organizations has proposed a different definition of ‘international organization’. See International Law Commission Report on the work of its fifty-fifth session (May ─ August 2003) General Assembly, Official Records, Fifty-eighth Session Supplement No. 10 (A/58/10), ‘Responsibility of International Organisations’, Ch IV, p.29 at 38─45

http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2003/2003report.htm

[and select chapter on ‘Responsibility of int’l orgs’]

8 The ITU: The International Frequency Registration Board is now The Radio Regulations Board. See

http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=conferences&link=rrb&lang=en

11 http://www.ilo.org/public/english/about/iloconst.htm#a3

19 www.un.org.

71 See under UN/US Relations at:

http://www.unausa.org/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=369041&ct=488393

84 http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/1993/scres93.htm

102 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

107 http://www.dnd.ca/somalia/somaliae.htm

*111 The Attorney General's advice in 2003 on the UN and Iraq has now been disclosed:

http://www.number-10.gov.uk/files/pdf/Iraq%20Resolution%201441.pdf

In considering this advice it is useful to compare it with the House of Lords debate in which the Attorney General participated on 21 Apr 2004: Hansard HL, Columns 356 – 376

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldhansrd/vo040421/text/40421-07.htm

For a domestic case in which arguments were deployed about the lawfulness of the United Kingdom’s actions in preparing for, declaring, and waging war in Iraq in 2003, see: Jones et al. v Gloucestershire Crown Prosecution Service [2004] EWCA Crim 1981 (and for HL, see link at Ch.4, note 15 above)

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/2004/1981.html

See also Gentle, R (on the application of) v Prime Minister & Ors

[2006] EWCA Civ 1690 (12 December 2006)

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/1690.html

On the relationship between a Security Council resolution on use of force and other international obligations, see R. (On the Application of Al Jedda) v. Secretary of State for Defence [2006] EWCA Civ 327

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/327.html

See also in the European Communities’ Court of First Instance Yusuf v Council & Commission,Case T-306/01 and Kadi v Council & Commission, Case T-315/01:

http://curia.europa.eu/en/content/juris/index.htm