United Nations Juridical Yearbook, 1969
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Extract from: UNITED NATIONS JURIDICAL YEARBOOK 1969 Part Four. Legal documents index and bibliography of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations Chapter IX. Legal documents index of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations Copyright (c) United Nations CONTENTS (continued) Page 7. United Kingdom 0/ Great Britain and Northern Ireland House of Lords Attorney General v. Nissan: Judgement of 11 February 196Q Legal status of British troops forming part of the United Nations Peace keeping Force in Cyprus-Question whether the Government of the United Kingdom can be held liable for actions of such troops .... 242 8. United States 0/ America (a) U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit Menon v. Esperdy: Judgement of 30 June 1969 Purpose of the G-4 visa status-Title 8, paragraph 1101(a)(15) G(iv) of the United States Code does not create a right to such status by its own terms but only provides a basis for the issuance of a visa upon a request by the appropriate international organization For the purpose of the statute, "members of the immediate family" must reside regularly in the household of the principal alien 243 (b) Family Court, City of New York, New York County Means v. Means: Decision of 6 August 1969 United Nations immunity from sequestration of a staff member's salary 243 Part Four. Legal documents index and bibliography of the United Nations and related inter-governmental organizations CHAPTER IX. LEGAL DOCUMENTS INDEX OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND RELATED INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS A. LEGAL DOCUMENTS INDEX OF THE UNITED NATIONS I. General Assembly and subsidiary organs 1. Plenary General Assembly and Main Committees (A) Documents relating to agenda items of legal interest (twenty-fourth session) (1) Reports of the Economic and Social Council (agenda item 12) 248 (2) Celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations: report of the Preparatory Committee for the Twenty- fifth Anniversary of the United Nations (agenda item 25) .. 248 (3) International co-operation in the peaceful uses of outer space: report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (agenda item 28) .................... 248 (4) Question of general and complete disarmament: report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (agenda item 29). ....................... 249 (5) Urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests: report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarma- ment (agenda item 30) ................. 249 xv HeinOnline -- 1969 U.N. Jurid. Y.B. xv 1969 CONTENTS (continued) Page (6) Conference of Non-Nuclear Weapon States (a) Implementation of the results of the Conference: report of the Secretary General (b) Establishment, within the framework of the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency, of an international service for nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes under appropriate international control: report of the Secretary-General (c) Con tribution of nuclear technology to the economic and scientific advancement of the developing countries: report of the Secretary-General (agenda item 31). ........... 249 (7) Question of the reservation exclusively for peaceful purposes of the sea-bed and the ocean floor, and the subsoil thereof, underlying the high seas beyond the limits of present national jurisdiction, and the use of their resources in the interests of mankind: report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction (agenda item 32). .............. 250 (8) The policies of apartheid of the Government of South Africa: report of the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa (agenda item 34). ....................... 250 (9) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: report of the Trade and Development Board (agenda item 37) 251 (10) Draft Declaration on Social Progress and Development (agenda item 48) .................... 251 (11) Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including policies of racial discrimination and segregation and of apartheid, in all countries, with particular reference to colonial and other dependent countries and territories (a) Measures for effectively combating racial discri mination and the policies of apartheid and segregation in southern Africa: report of the Secretary-General (b) Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on the treatment of political prisoners in South Africa: report of the Secretary General (agenda item 57) ................ 251 (12) Respect for human rights in armed conflicts: report of the Secretary-General (agenda item 61). ........... 252 (13) Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its twenty-first session (agenda item 86) Declaration and resolutions adopted by the United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties (b) Resolution relating to article 1 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (agenda item 94). ....... 252 (14) Draft Convention on Special Missions (agenda item 87). .. 252 (15) Report of the Special Committee on the Question of Defining Aggression (agenda item 88) ............... 253 xvi HeinOnline -- 1969 U.N. 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Y.B. xvi 1969 CONTENTS (continued) Page (16) Consideration of principles of international law concerning friendly relations and co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations: report of the Special Committee on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States (agenda item 89). ....................... 253 (17) Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its second session (agenda item 90) 253 (18) United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law: report of the Secretary-General (agenda item 91) ... 254 (19) Amendment to Article 22 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (Seat of the Court) and consequential amend ments to Articles 23 and 28 (agenda item 93). ....... 254 (20) Declaration and resolutions adopted by the United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties (a) Declaration on Universal Participation in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (c) Resolution relating to article 66 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the annex thereto (agenda item 94). ..................... 254 (21) Amendments to the rules ofprocedure of the General Assembly resulting from the amendment to rule 51 (agenda item 96) Reports of the Economic and Social Council [A/1203, para graphs 764 to 770] (agenda item 12) ......... 255 (22) Agreement between the Republic ofIndonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands concerning West New Guinea (West Irian): report of the Secretary-General regarding the act of self-determination in West Irian (agenda item 98). ..... 255 (23) Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons (a) Report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarma ment (b) Conclusion of a convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and on the destruction of such weapons (c) Report of the Secretary-General (agenda item 104) ....................... 255 (24) Forcible diversion of civil aircraft in flight (agenda item 105) 256 (25) Need to consider suggestions regarding the review of the Charter of the United Nations (agenda item 107) . 256 (B) Other documents of legal interest. ......... 256 2. Committee on Applications for Review of Administrative Tribunal Judgements Document of legal interest. ................ 257 3. Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme Document of legal interest .............. 257 xvii HeinOnline -- 1969 U.N. Jurid. Y.B. xvii 1969 CONTENTS (continued) Page 4. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Legal Sub-Committee Documents relating to agenda items of legal interest (1) Study of questions relative to (a) The definition of outer space; (b) The utilization of outer space and celestial bodies, including the various implications of space communications (agenda item 3) .... 258 (2) Liability for damage caused by the launching of objects into outer space (agenda item 2). ........... 258 Working Group on Direct Broadcast Satellites Document oflegal interest. ......... 258 5. 1969 Special Committee on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States Documents relating to an agenda item of legal interest Completion of the Special Committee's work, in the light of the debate which took place in the Sixth Committee during the twenty-third and preceding sessions of the General Assembly and in the 1964, 1966, 1967 and 1968 sessions of the Special Committee, by endeavouring to resolve, in the light of General Assembly resolution 2327 (XXII), all relevant questions relating to the formulation of the seven principles [paragraph 4 of General Assembly resolution 2463 (XXIII)] (Agenda item 6) ............................ 259 6. United Nations Council for Namibia Document oflegal interest. ................... 259 7. Special Committee on the Question of Defining Aggression Document relating to an agenda item of legal interest (1969 session) Consideration of the question of defining aggression (General Assem- bly resolutions 2330 (XXII) and 2420 (XXIII). .......... 259 8. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-bed and the Ocean Floor beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction Document oflegal interest. ..................