Council of Europe

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-518
Keyword(s):  
Secretary General ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Associate Member ◽  
Federal German Republic ◽  
German Republic ◽  
The Government

Following the decision of the Committee of Ministers, the government of the Federal German Republic on July 13, 1950 deposited with the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe an instrument accepting the Statute of the Council, thereby becoming an associate member of the Council. At the same time the government of the Saar deposited an instrument accepting the Statute and also became an associate member. Germany was to have eighteen seats in the Assembly and the Saar three.1 August 7, 1950 was fixed by the Standing Committee as the opening day of the secondsession of the Consultative Assembly.

Western European Union

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-448
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Standing Committee ◽  
Inaugural Meeting ◽  
The North ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western European

On May 6, 1955, the Western European Union (WEU) formally came into existence.1 On May 7, the WEU Council held its inaugural meeting in Paris. The Council considered various questions relating to the structure of WEU and, after approving the Interim Commission's report and adopting the draft agreement on the status of WEU and its staff, appointed Louis Goffin (Belgium) Secretary-General of WEU. Admiral Ferreri (Italy) was appointed director of the Agency for the Control of Armaments. The Council also decided, on the basis of studies carried out by a working group established at the nine-power conference in Paris on October 21, 1954, to create a Standing Armaments Committee composed of national representatives and served by a small secretariat. The Standing Committee had the task of “the development of the closest possible co-operation between member countries of Western European Union in the field of armaments, in order to seek the most practical means of using the resources available to these countries for equipping and supplying their forces and of sharing tasks in the best interest of all”. In order to promote liaison with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the seat of the Standing Committee was to be Paris; Charles Cristofini (France) was appointed Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the international secretariat of the Standing Committee. The Council further decided that the first meeting of the WEU Assembly should be held in Strasbourg during die same period as the next session of die Consultative Assembly of die Council of Europe and that the WEU Assembly should be composed of die representatives of the Brussels Treaty powers to the Consultative Assembly.

Development of Routing in Coastal Waters

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
A. N. Cockcroft
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Routing Schemes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Federal German Republic ◽  
German Republic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Navigational Aids

Traffic separation schemes and other routing measures have now been established in the coastal waters of many countries and new schemes are being introduced each year. Traffic separation was originally intended to reduce the risk of collision between ships proceeding in opposite directions but this paper explains how routing measures are now being used mainly for coastal protection. Improvements in navigational aids may lead to more extensive routing schemes in the future with increasing restriction on the movement of shipping.The first traffic separation schemes adopted by IMCO (now IMO) in 1965 and 1968 were based on proposals made by the Institutes of Navigation of France, the Federal German Republic and the United Kingdom. In the report submitted to the Organisation by the Institutes in 1964 it was stated that ‘the object of any form of routing is to ease the congestion and lessen the likelihood of end-on encounters by separating opposing streams of traffic …’.

South Sudan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Giffen
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
South Sudan ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
United Nations Peacekeeping ◽  
The Government ◽  
Do So

Two years and five months following the country’s independence from Sudan, a political crisis in South Sudan quickly devolved into a civil war marked by violence that could amount to atrocities. At the time, a United Nations peacekeeping operation, UNMISS, was the principal multinational intervention in South Sudan. UNMISS was explicitly mandated to assist the government of South Sudan to fulfil its responsibility to protect and was also authorized to protect civilians when the government was unable or unwilling to do so. Despite this role, UNMISS’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General said that no one could have predicted the scale or speed at which the violence unfolded. This chapter explores whether the atrocities could have been predicted by UNMISS, why UNMISS was unprepared, and what other peacekeeping operations can learn from UNMISS’s experience.

General Assembly

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
North Borneo ◽  
General Assembly Resolution ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

Federation of Malaysia: On August 5, 1963, the governments of Malaya, Indonesia, and the Philippines requested the Secretary-General, U Thant, to ascertain by a fresh approach, prior to the establishment of the Federation of Malaysia, the wishes of the people of Sabah (North Borneo) and Sarawak concerning their future political status. His survey was to be conducted within the context of principle 9 of the annex to General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV) of December 15, 1960. More specifically the Secretary-General was asked to consider whether in the recent elections in Sabah and Sarawak: 1) Malaysia had been a major issue if not the major issue; 2) electoral registers had been properly compiled; 3) elections had been free and there had been no coercion; and 4) votes had been properly polled and counted. In addition, he was to take into account the wishes of those who would have exercised their right of self-determination in the recent elections had they not been detained for political activities, imprisoned for political offenses, or absent from the country. Responding to this request and with the consent of the government of the United Kingdom, the Secretary-General set up two working teams under the supervision of his personal representative, which were to work in Sarawak and Sabah. The mission, consisting of nine individuals, held hearings and considered written communications.

The Former Secretary General of the Council of Europe Confronting Russia’s Annexation of the Crimea and Turkey’s State of Emergency

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Esra Demir-Gürsel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Core ◽  
European Court ◽  
Political Expediency ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Postponement

Abstract This article investigates the influence of the former Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Thorbjørn Jagland, on the responses of other CoE bodies to the systemic breaches of the core principles of other CoE bodies to the systemic breaches of the core principles of the CoE in the context of two critical events: Russia’s annexation of the Crimea in 2014 and Turkey’s state of emergency that followed the attempted coup in 2016. Specifically, it examines the influence of the Secretary General’s policy preferences on the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE and the European Court of Human Rights. The article argues that Jagland’s policy preferences in the context of these two events prioritised political expediency to the detriment of the CoE’s normative mission. The article finds that the Secretary General played a crucial role in facilitating the reversal of the sanctions imposed by the Assembly against Russia and the postponement of the processing of Turkey’s post-coup cases by the Court.

Figure 5.7: the institutions of the Council of Europe 5.4.3 Relationship of the Convention with English law The UK has had many cases brought against it by individuals, and its track record in relation to human rights has been demonstrated to be worrying. Between 1975 and 1990, 30 cases were brought against the UK and in 21 of these cases the ECtHR found that the government had violated the ECHR. By 1997, the number of successful applications against the UK had risen to 50. In 1997, when the Labour government came into power one of its election promises was to incorporate these Convention rights into English law. 5.4.3.1 1951–98 As an international treaty the Convention had no force within the English legal system, and Convention rights were not enforceable in English courts. However, the UK government could be taken to the ECtHR by individuals and, as noted above, it was. But, having said that, although the Convention had no force in the English legal system, it was not ignored over the course of almost 50 years between 1951 and 1998. English courts were indeed influenced by the Convention in a range of ways. Judges in the House of Lords stated that they would presume that Parliament

2012 ◽  
pp. 136-136
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
International Treaty ◽  
Track Record ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
English Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relationship Of

Governance and Financial Reporting of Islamic Banks

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
Ambareen Beebeejaun
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Associate Member ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up

While Islamic finance continues to evolve at a fast pace across the globe, the government of Mauritius is undertaking various initiatives to encourage and facilitate the conduct of Islamic banking activities in the country. Examples are the admission of the Bank of Mauritius as an associate member of the Islamic Financial Services Board in 2007, the enactment of the guidelines for Islamic banking in 2008, and the hosting of the 11th Islamic Financial Services Board Summit in 2014. Consequently, through these endeavors, several stakeholders offering Islamic finance products are expressing interest to set up their business infrastructures in Mauritius. Hence, this chapter discusses the main governance and financial reporting requirements of the offeror of Islamic banking products such that potential investors are acquainted with the legal and compliance needs of an Islamic bank operating in Mauritius.

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