The work of the Sixth Committee at the fifty-first session of the UN General Assembly

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The UN's Sixth Committee, which deals with international law, handled a number of different items during the General Assembly's 51st session, including adopting a draft convention on non-navigational use of international watercourses and reviewing a proposal to create an international criminal court. A number of key reports were reviewed, including the International Law Commission's annual report and documents on international trade and on strengthening the UN's role. Antiterrorism measures, humanitarian law issues, and the UN Decade of International Law were also reviewed by the committee.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Practice, United Nations, International law

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Toward world antitrust and market access

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The increasing globalization of business has generated a need for international antitrust laws to protect against the misuse of corporate power. Some approaches include harmonization of laws, an international code, bilateral antitrust agreements or outbound extraterritoriality. The best approach would be to establish guidelines for clear, nondiscriminatory, credible and understandable laws but let each nation determine its own definition of unjustifiable market access restraint instead of agreeing on a single market access principle.

Interpretation and construction, Antitrust law (International law)

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The sixth session of the UN Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court

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The Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court completed its final session in April 1998. It submitted a final text of a statute defining the International Criminal Court (ICC). The text is scheduled for adoption at a Rome conference in June and July 1998. Many important considerations remain unresolved, such as jurisdiction, crime definitions, and voting procedures to adopt the statute.

Reports, International aspects, International courts, Criminal courts

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