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July 22, 2015
Eighth Session (1956)
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
| Symbol | Title |
|---|---|
| A/CN.4/95 | Provisional Agenda |
| A/CN.4/96 | Report on International Responsibility by Mr. F.V. Garcia-Amador, Special Rapporteur |
| A/CN.4/97 + Corr.1 + Add.1–3 | Report on Questions Relating to the Regime of the High Seas and the Territorial Sea by Mr. J.P.A. François, Special Rapporteur |
| A/CN.4/98 | Codification of the International Law Relating to Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities, Memorandum prepared by the Secretariat |
| A/CN.4/99 + Add.1–9 | Comments by Governments on the Provisional Articles Concerning the Regime of the High Seas and the Draft Articles on the Regime of the Territorial Sea adopted by the International Law Commission at its Seventh Session |
| A/CN.4/100 | Comments by Inter-governmental Organizations on Articles regarding Fishing embodied in the Provisional Articles concerning the Regime of the High Seas adopted by the International Law Commission at its Seventh Session. |
| A/CN.4/101 | Report on the Law of Treaties by Mr. G.G. Fitzmaurice |
| A/CN.4/102 + Corr.1–2/Rev.1 + Corr.3–4 + Add.1 | Cooperation with Inter-American Bodies — Report by the Secretary on the proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Inter-American Council of Jurists held at Mexico City, January-February 1956 |
| A/CN.4/103 | Regime of the High Seas — Supplementary Report — The Right of International Organizations to Sail Vessels under their Flags, by Mr. J.P.A. François, Special Rapporteur |
| A/CN.4/104 | Report of the International Law Commission on the Work of its Eighth Session, 23 April–4 July 1956, Official Records of the General Assembly, Eleventh Session, Supplement No. 9 (A/3159) |
Limited Documents
| Symbol | Title |
|---|---|
| A/CN.4/L.55 | Law of treaties: working paper prepared by the Secretariat |
| A/CN.4/L.64 | Note by the Secretariat |
| A/CN.4/L.65 | Note by the Secretariat |
| A/CN.4/L.66 | Agenda of the 331st meeting of the Commission |
| A/CN.4/L.67 | Note by the Secretariat |
| A/CN.4/L.68 + Add.1–5 | Draft report of the International Law Commission covering the work of its eighth session |
Summary Records
| Symbol | Title |
|---|---|
| A/CN.4/SR.331 | Summary record of the 331st meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.332 | Summary record of the 332nd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.333 | Summary record of the 333rd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.334 | Summary record of the 334th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.335 | Summary record of the 335th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.336 | Summary record of the 336th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.337 | Summary record of the 337th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.338 | Summary record of the 338th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.339 | Summary record of the 339th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.340 | Summary record of the 340th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.341 | Summary record of the 341st meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.342 | Summary record of the 342nd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.343 | Summary record of the 343rd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.344 | Summary record of the 344th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.345 | Summary record of the 345th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.346 | Summary record of the 346th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.347 | Summary record of the 347th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.348 | Summary record of the 348th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.349 | Summary record of the 349th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.350 | Summary record of the 350th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.351 | Summary record of the 351st meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.352 | Summary record of the 352nd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.353 | Summary record of the 353rd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.354 | Summary record of the 354th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.355 | Summary record of the 355th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.356 | Summary record of the 356th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.357 | Summary record of the 357th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.358 | Summary record of the 358th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.359 | Summary record of the 359th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.360 | Summary record of the 360th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.361 | Summary record of the 361st meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.362 | Summary record of the 362nd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.363 | Summary record of the 363rd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.364 | Summary record of the 364th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.365 | Summary record of the 365th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.366 | Summary record of the 366th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.367 | Summary record of the 367th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.368 | Summary record of the 368th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.369 | Summary record of the 369th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.370 | Summary record of the 370th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.371 | Summary record of the 371st meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.372 | Summary record of the 372nd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.373 | Summary record of the 373rd meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.374 | Summary record of the 374th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.375 | Summary record of the 375th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.376 | Summary record of the 376th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.377 | Summary record of the 377th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.378 | Summary record of the 378th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.379 | Summary record of the 379th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.380 | Summary record of the 380th meeting |
| A/CN.4/SR.381 | Summary record of the 381st meeting |
Some documents are not available on this website for the following reasons:
- In some cases, documents have deliberately been excluded from this website, including draft documents such as the draft report of the International Law Commission, which serves as the basis for the Commission adoption of its annual report, and which, accordingly, is superceded as soon as the final version is adopted;
- In connection with more recent documentation (post-1995), where a Yearbook of the International Law Commission volume does not yet exist, links are provided to the version available on the United Nations Optical Disk System, i.e. the version which the Commission itself considered (and not the final edited version to be included in a Yearbook); in some cases such documents (or particular language versions thereof) are not available on that System, for technical reasons.
- Unless otherwise indicated, summary records are available in English and French only. Additional language versions are made available as and when the respective volumes of the Yearbook are published.
- 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;