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D.B. Bardonnet, ed., The Adaptation of Structures and Methods of Development, Reports of the Hague Colloquium 4-6 111985, Martinus Nijhoff Publ., Dordrecht1986, XVIII + 416 pp., Dfl. 155/$66.5O/£54.25. - K.C. Wellens, ed., Peace and Security: Justice and Development, a report of a Congress on the occasion of forty years United Nations, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague1986, XII + 99 pp.

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1. Bardonnet, D.B., ed., L'adaptation des structures et méthodes des Nations Unies / The Adaptation of Structures and Methods at the United Nations (1986) 416 ppCrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Wellens, K.C., ed., Peace and Security: Justice and Development (1986) 99 ppGoogle Scholar.

3. Cf., the same author in AJIL (1984) pp. 811–833 (Of Gnats and Camels: Is There a Double Standard at the United Nations ?). He writes about two normative areas of UN activities: resistance to aggression and promotion of human rights. Comment by Prof. Th.C. van Boven in AJIL (1985) pp. 714–717.

4. It would have been more interesting to learn by which of the many quoted methods the present dispute between his country and Hungary will be settled.

5. This was also the case with the Observations on the mechanisms of settlement of disputes under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982), which shall not enter into force in the near future, and the application of the dispute provisions which is even further in the future (pp. 107–133).

6. This viewpoint was denied by the socialist countries in the first years of the UN's existence.

7. (1987) 135 pp.

8. See also his detailed communication on ‘La politique de recrutement des fonctionnaires de I'ONU’at the Colloque d'Aix-en-Provence, 1984, held by the Société Française pour le droit international (1985) pp. 192–202, and the general conclusions by Prof. Virally pp. 426–432.

9. Also in the French language: ‘efficacité’ has not the same sense as ‘effectivité’. Cf., Touscoz, Jean, Le principe d'effectivité dans I'ordre international (1964)Google Scholar, and Charles Visscher, De, Les effectivites du droit international public (1967) at p. 53Google Scholar.

10. Zyss, Mr. Witold needed 136 pages to explain ‘Le régime commun des NU’ in RGDIP (1987) pp. 341477Google Scholar.

11. (1981) 245 pp.