Upcoming Meetings
By way of advance notice, Member States are hereby informed that the PCA Administrative Council and its Budget Committee are scheduled to meet at the Peace Palace on the following dates: 

Budget Committee:	March 12, 2008 (10:00 - 12:30)
Administrative Council:	April 23, 2008 (10:30 - 12:30)

  

Commemorative Session in Review

A Commemorative Session of the Administrative Council was held on October 18, 2007, to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the 1907 Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes – one of the two consitutive treaties of the PCA.

The session was opened by (Acting) President  H.E. Max van der Stoel, Minister of State of The Netherlands. Presentations were given by H.E. Judge Gilbert Guillaume, who spoke on inter-State arbitration, Professor Philippe Sands QC, who discussed the PCA’s role in inter-State arbitration under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and Professor James Crawford SC, who addressed mixed arbitrations between States and private entities.