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4.
States, the United Nations system of organizations and regional
organizations should consider organizing seminars, symposia, training courses,
lectures and meetings and undertaking studies on various aspects of
international law.
5.
States are encouraged to organize special training in
international law for legal professionals, including judges, and personnel of
ministries of foreign affairs and other relevant ministries as well as
military personnel. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the
Hague Academy of International Law, the International Institute of
Humanitarian Law, regional organizations and the International Committee of
the Red Cross are invited to continue cooperating in this respect with States.
6.
In connection with the training of military personnel, States are
encouraged to foster the teaching and dissemination of the principles
governing the protection of the environment in times of armed conflict and
should consider the possibility of making use of the guidelines for military
manuals and instructions prepared by the International Committee of the Red
Cross. 3/
7.
Cooperation among developing countries, as well as between
developed and developing countries, in particular among those persons who are
involved in the practice of international law, for exchanging experience and
for mutual assistance in the field of international law, including assistance
in providing textbooks and manuals of international law, is encouraged.
8.
In order to make better known the practice of international law,
States and international and regional organizations should endeavour to
publish, if they have not done so, summaries, repertories or yearbooks of
their practice.
9.
States and international organizations should encourage the
publication of important international legal instruments and studies by highly
qualified publicists, bearing in mind the possibility of assistance from
private sources.
10.
The Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Registry of the
International Court of Justice, is encouraged to update the publication
Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the International
Court of Justice (1948-1991), 6/ in all the official languages of the
Organization and within the existing overall level of appropriations.
11.
Other international courts and tribunals, including the European
Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, are
invited to disseminate more widely their judgements and advisory opinions, and
to consider preparing thematic or analytical summaries thereof.
12.
International organizations are requested to publish treaties
concluded under their auspices, if they have not yet done so. Timely
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