Special allowance to be paid to members of the International Law Commission

XI. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
1106. Special allowance to be paid to members of the International Law Commission

The General Assembly, Recalling that, by its resolution 485 (V) of 12 December 1950, it amended article 13 of the Statute of the International Law Commission, in consequence of which that article reads as follows: "Members of the Commission shall be paid travel expenses, and shall also receive a special allowance, the amount of which shall be determined by the General Assembly", Noting that this amendment provided for a special allowance for the members of the Commission, and that one of the reasons specified in the said resolution was that the nature and scope of the work of the Commission are such as to require its members to devote considerable time in attendance at the necessarily long sessions of the Commission, Considering that the circumstances thus referred to have not, in the meantime, in any way changed and that it has in addition become clear that the nature of the Commission's task requires all its members to devote considerable time to the work of the Commission between, as well as during, its regular sessions, Considering that the General Assembly, on the report of the Fifth Committee, has by its resolution 1075 (XI) of 7 December 1956 fixed a uniform subsistence allowance for all organs of the United Nations, Having regard to the fact that resolution 1075 (XI), which deals only with subsistence allowances, does not affect article 13 of the Statute of the International Law Commission 'which, for the reasons stated in General Assembly resolution 485 (V), provides for a special allowance to be paid to the members of the Commission, and that subsistence allowance at the normal uniform rate does not constitute a "special" allowance according to the meaning and intention of article 13 of the Commission's Statute, because that term, interpreted in such a way as to fulfill the purposes of resolution 485 (V), must include both the normal subsistence allowance and an additional allowance to be paid to the members of the Commission, Confirms that, article 13 of the Statute of the International Law Commission being still in force and General Assembly resolution 485 (V) of 12 December 1950 having determined the global allowance that should be paid in order to give due and adequate effect to that article, a special allowance of $15 per day continues to be payable to the members of the Commission, in addition to subsistence allowance at the normal uniform rate. 658th plenary meeting,
21 February 1957.