Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
Studiejaar 2024-2025
Propedeuse (bachelor 1)
Inleiding Internationaal recht (1IINT)
Reader (Wetgeving en Jurisprudentie)
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, Inhoudsopgave
Wetgeving
Charter of the United Nations (1945), English version 2
Friendly Relations Declaration, GA Res. 2625 (1970) 32
UN Security Council Resolution 2699 (2023) inzake Haiti 33
Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (1994) 39
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1947/1994), selected articles 50
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) 56
Paris Agreement (2015) 61
Jurisprudentie
ICJ, Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua
(Nicaragua v the United States of America, 1986), para. 1-25, 93-116, 172-209 en 292; 73
ICJ, Case concerning the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros project (Hungary v Slovakia, 1997),
para. 29, 46-110 en 112-147; 122
ICJ, Questions relating to the obligation to prosecute or extradite (Belgium vs Senegal, 2012); 169
ICJ, Advisory Opinion on the accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration
of independence in respect of Kosovo, para. 1-13, 17-56 en 78-122. 210
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, CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June 1945, in San Francisco, at the
conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, and came
into force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice is an
integral part of the Charter.
Amendments to Articles 23, 27 and 61 of the Charter were adopted by the General
Assembly on 17 December 1963 and came into force on 31 August 1965. A further
amendment to Article 61 was adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 1971,
and came into force on 24 September 1973. An amendment to Article 109, adopted by
the General Assembly on 20 December 1965, came into force on 12 June 1968.
The amendment to Article 23 enlarges the membership of the Security Council from
eleven to fifteen. The amended Article 27 provides that decisions of the Security Council
on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly
seven) and on all other matters by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven),
including the concurring votes of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The amendment to Article 61, which entered into force on 31 August 1965, enlarged the
membership of the Economic and Social Council from eighteen to twenty-seven. The
subsequent amendment to that Article, which entered into force on 24 September 1973,
further increased the membership of the Council from twenty-seven to fifty-four.
The amendment to Article 109, which relates to the first paragraph of that Article,
provides that a General Conference of Member States for the purpose of reviewing the
Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members
of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine members (formerly seven) of the
Security Council. Paragraph 3 of Article 109, which deals with the consideration of a
possible review conference during the tenth regular session of the General Assembly, has
been retained in its original form in its reference to a "vote, of any seven members of the
Security Council", the paragraph having been acted upon in 1955 by the General
Assembly, at its tenth regular session, and by the Security Council.
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, PREAMBLE
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
• to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our
lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
• to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the
human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and
small, and
• to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising
from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
• to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
• to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good
neighbours, and
• to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
• to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that
armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
• to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social
advancement of all peoples,
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city
of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form,
have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an
international organization to be known as the United Nations.
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