Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property

A/RES/55/150View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 157 Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1995–2004

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2004).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2004	A/RES/59/38	Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property	5,217	3%Compare
2004	A/RES/58/74	Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property	259	59%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/16	Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property	276	34%Compare
2002	A/RES/56/78	Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and Their Property	247	29%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/150	Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property	347	71%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

State Immunities State Property Treaties

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Working Group on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property of the International Law Commission, set forth in the annex to the report of the Commission on the work of its fifty-first session;1

Urges States, if they have not yet done so, to submit their comments to the Secretary-General in accordance with General Assembly resolution 49/61 of 9 December 1994, and also invites States to submit in writing to the Secretary-General, by 1 August 2001, their comments on the reports of the open-ended working group of the Sixth Committee established under resolutions 53/98 and 54/101;2

Decides to establish an Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, open also to participation by States members of the specialized agencies, to further the work done, consolidate areas of agreement and resolve outstanding issues with a view to elaborating a generally acceptable instrument based on the draft articles on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property adopted by the International Law Commission at its forty-third session,⁵ and also on the discussions of the open-ended working group of the Sixth Committee and their results;2

⁵Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1991, vol. II, Part Two (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.V.9 (Part 2)), document A/46/10, chap. II, para. 28.

Decides that the Ad Hoc Committee shall meet for two weeks in March 2002;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property”.

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