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Forty-eighth Session (1996)

Documents

The general and limited distribution documents of the International Law Commission (in the “A/CN.4” series) are issued, in all six official languages, as official documents of the United Nations. The Commission’s Summary Records are first made available in provisional form, in English and French only. They are subsequently edited and translated into the other official languages, and published in the Yearbook of the International Law Commission. Some of the Commission’s other documents are also later edited and published in the Yearbook, together with the Commission’s annual report to the General Assembly.

General Documents

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A/CN.4/472 + Add.1 Topical summary, prepared by the Secretariat, of the discussion in the Sixth Committee on the report of the Commission during the fiftieth session of the General Assembly
A/CN.4/473 Provisional Agenda
A/CN.4/474 + Corr.1 + Corr.2 Second report on State Succession and its impact on the nationality of natural and legal persons, by Mr. Vaclav Mikulka, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/475 + Corr.1 + Add.1 + Add.1/Corr.1 Twelfth report on international liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law, by Mr. Julio Barboza, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/476 + Add.1 Eighth report on State Responsibility, by Mr. Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, Special Rapporteur
A/CN.4/477 + Corr.1 + Corr.2 + Add.1 + Add.1/Corr.1–2 + Add.1/Corr.3 + Add.1/Corr.4 Second report on reservations to treaties, by Mr. Alain Pellet, Special Rapporteur

Limited Documents

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A/CN.4/L.522 + Corr.1 Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind. Titles and texts of articles adopted by the Drafting Committee on second reading at the forty-seventh and forty-eighth sessions — reproduced in document A/CN.4/SR.2437, para.7
A/CN.4/L.524 + Corr.2 Part 1 of the draft articles adopted by the commission on first reading at its thirty-second session, in 1980, and titles and texts of parts 2 and 3 of the draft articles as provisionally adopted by the Drafting Committee on first reading at the forty-eighth session, in 1996
A/CN.4/L.525 + Add.1 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter IV (Sate succession and its impact on the nationality of natural and legal persons)
A/CN.4/L.526 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter I (Organization of the session)
A/CN.4/L.527 + Add.1 + Add.1/Corr.1 + Add.2–5 + Add.6/Rev.1 + Add.7–10 + Add.10/Corr.1 and Add.11 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter II (Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind)
A/CN.4/L.528 + Corr.1 + Add.1–3 + Add.3/Corr.1 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter III (State responsibility)
A/CN.4/L.529 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter V (International liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law
A/CN.4/L.530 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter VI (Reservations to treaties)
A/CN.4/L.531 + Corr.1–2 + Add.1/Rev.1 + Add.5–6 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: chapter VII (Other decisions and conclusions of the Commission)
A/CN.4/L.532 + Corr.1–3 Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind. Titles and texts of articles adopted by the Commission at its forty-eighth session — reproduced in Yearbook 1996, vol. II (Part Two), para.50
A/CN.4/L.533 + Add.1 International liability for injurious consequences arising out of acts not prohibited by international law. Report of the Working Group — reproduced in Yearbook 1996, vol. II (Part Two), annex I
A/CN.4/L.534 Draft report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-eighth session: report of the Working Group on the long-term programme of work
ILC(XLVIII)/DC/CRD.3 Proposal by Mr. Christian Tomuschat on crimes against the environment

Summary Records

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A/CN.4/SR.2426 Summary record of the 2426th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2427 Summary record of the 2427th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2428 Summary record of the 2428th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2429 Summary record of the 2429th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2430 Summary record of the 2430th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2431 Summary record of the 2431st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2432 Summary record of the 2432nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2433 Summary record of the 2433rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2434 Summary record of the 2434th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2435 Summary record of the 2435th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2436 Summary record of the 2436th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2437 Summary record of the 2437th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2438 Summary record of the 2438th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2439 Summary record of the 2439th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2440 Summary record of the 2440th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2441 Summary record of the 2441st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2442 Summary record of the 2442nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2443 Summary record of the 2443rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2444 Summary record of the 2444th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2445 Summary record of the 2445th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2446 Summary record of the 2446th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2447 Summary record of the 2447th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2448 Summary record of the 2448th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2449 Summary record of the 2449th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2450 Summary record of the 2450th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2451 Summary record of the 2451st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2452 Summary record of the 2452nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2453 Summary record of the 2453rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2454 Summary record of the 2454th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2455 Summary record of the 2455th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2456 Summary record of the 2456th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2457 Summary record of the 2457th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2458 Summary record of the 2458th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2459 Summary record of the 2459th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2460 Summary record of the 2460th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2461 Summary record of the 2461st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2462 Summary record of the 2462nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2463 Summary record of the 2463rd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2464 Summary record of the 2464th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2465 Summary record of the 2465th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2466 Summary record of the 2466th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2467 Summary record of the 2467th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2468 Summary record of the 2468th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2469 Summary record of the 2469th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2470 Summary record of the 2470th meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2471 Summary record of the 2471st meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2472 Summary record of the 2472nd meeting
A/CN.4/SR.2473 Summary record of the 2473rd meeting

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  • In the case of documents issued in mimeograph format in earlier years, those that were subsequently reproduced in the Yearbook of the International Law Commission have been made available. Where hard copies of the individual documents not in the Yearbook still exist, attempts have been made to also have those digitized and placed on this site to provide as complete a collection as possible;
  • Up until 1955 documents were issued in the original language of submission, and the other linguistic versions were not always produced, i.e. some documents were only issued in English or in French or in Spanish;