Arms Control and Disarmament

DIETER FLECK,ERWIN DAHINDEN,BAKHTIYAR TUZMUKHJAMEDOV,MAUREEN WILLIAMS

Report of the 71st Conference of the International Law Association, Berlin 2004

International Law Association, Londres

Lugar: Londres, Reino Unido; Año: 2005; p. 488 - 526

The objective is to contribute to a systematic evaluation of legal measures necessary to ensure the effective functioning of arms control and disarmament agreements, such as the significance of general principles of international law and their application, legal restraints in arms proliferation, national and international verification measures, and legal remedies of arms control impasse. The interdependence between different fields of international law and the importance of concerted action at national and international level have vigorously been underlined in the process of writing this report At the same time the need for an in-depth study of certain aspects and the requirement of an assessment of new issues of relevance for the progressive arms control process was revealed. A growing awareness of the importance of legal considerations may be seen as a result of arms control impasse in a complex security environment, but it could be taken at the same time as a challenge to lawyers for elaborating viable solutions to ensure effective implementation of international and national measures. This underlines the requirement for continued legal efforts which could best be promoted by a new study group of an interdisciplinary nature representing all relevant legal disciplines and regions where arms control efforts are progressively developing.