The 60th anniversary event, Source: The ILC's website

The International Law Commission has just made electronically available the Report on the work of its sixty-first session that took place from 4 May to 5 June and from 6 July to 7 August 2009.

The Report generally discusses the responsibility of international organizations, including the text of the Draft Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations that embraces:

● Part One: Introduction

● Part Two: The Internationally Wrongful Act of an International Organization

Chapter I: General principles

Chapter II: Attribution of conduct to an international organization

Chapter III: Breach of an international obligation

Chapter IV: Responsibility of an international organization in connection with the act of a state or another international organization

Chapter V: Circumstances precluding wrongfulness

● Part Three: Content of the International Responsibility of an International Organization

Chapter I: General principles

Chapter II: Reparation for injury

Chapter III: Serious breaches of obligations under peremptory norms of general international law

● Part Four: The Implementation of the International Responsibility of an International Organization

Chapter I: Invocation of the responsibility of an international organization

Chapter II: Countermeasures

● Part Five: Responsibility of a State in Connection with the Act of an International Organization

● Part Six: General Provisions

The Report also discusses the following topics:

● Reservations to treaties

● Expulsion of aliens

● Protection of persons in the event of disasters

● Shared natural resources

● The obligation to extradite or prosecute

● Immunity of state officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction

● The most-favoured-nation clause

● Treaties over time

The Report is available at http://www.un.org/law/ilc and http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2009/2009report.htm