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held within the framework of the fellowship programme in international law,
account would be taken of the need to secure the representation of major legal
systems and balance among various geographical regions,
Approves the guidelines and recommendations contained in section III of
1.
the report of the Secretary-General1 and adopted by the Advisory Committee on the
United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and
Wider Appreciation of International Law, in particular those designed to achieve the
best possible results in the administration of the Programme within a policy of
maximum financial restraint;
Authorizes the Secretary-General to carry out in 2006 and 2007 the
2.
activities specified in his report, including the provision of:
(a) A number of international law fellowships in both 2006 and 2007, to be
determined in the light of the overall resources for the Programme and to be
awarded at the request of Governments of developing countries;
(b) A minimum of one scholarship in both 2006 and 2007 under the
Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, subject
to the availability of new voluntary contributions made specifically to the
fellowship fund;
(c) Subject to the overall resources for the Programme, assistance in the
form of a travel grant for one participant from each developing country, who would
be invited to possible regional courses to be organized in 2006 and 2007;
and to finance the above activities from provisions in the regular budget, when
appropriate, as well as from voluntary financial contributions earmarked for each of
the activities concerned, which would be received as a result of the requests set out
in paragraphs 12 to 14 below;
Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his constructive
3.
efforts to promote training and assistance in international law within the framework
of the Programme in 2004 and 2005, in particular for the organization of the
fortieth 2 and forty-first 3 sessions of the International Law Seminar, held at Geneva
in 2004 and 2005, respectively, and for the activities of the Office of Legal Affairs
of the Secretariat related to the fellowship programme in international law and to
the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea,
carried out, respectively, through its Codification Division and its Division for
Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea;
Requests the Secretary-General to consider the possibility of admitting,
4.
for participation in the various components of the Programme, candidates from
countries willing to bear the entire cost of such participation;
Also requests the Secretary-General to consider the relative advantages
5.
of using available resources and voluntary contributions for regional, subregional or
national courses, as against courses organized within the United Nations system;
Further requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the
6.
necessary resources to the programme budget for the Programme for the next and
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2
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/59/10),
chap. XI, sect. E.
3
Ibid., Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/60/10), chap. XII, sect. E.
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