Satow's Diplomatic Practice (6th Edition)
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Invitations to a Conference Invitations to a Conference
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Representatives Representatives
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Languages at Conferences Languages at Conferences
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The President of a Conference The President of a Conference
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Ceremonial and Precedence Ceremonial and Precedence
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Procedure Procedure
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Codification of Procedures Codification of Procedures
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Participation in International Conferences Participation in International Conferences
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Observers Observers
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The Secretariat The Secretariat
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34 International Conferences
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Published:24 September 2009
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Permanent organizations having their own standing arrangements and rules of procedure, such as the United Nations and the Specialized Agencies, are treated as a separate subject in Book V. Cross-references to that Book have therefore been kept to a minimum.
34.1 An international conference is a meeting of State representatives for the discussion or settlement of questions of international concern, which may include meetings for the determination of political questions, or for the treatment of matters of a social or economic order. The term ‘congress’ was used in the past to refer to formal assemblies of Plenipotentiaries for the conclusion of peace and the redistribution of territory, as, for example, the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) after the Napoleonic Wars, the Congress of Paris (1856) after the Crimean War, and the Congress of Berlin (1878) for the settlement of affairs in the East, following the Russo-Turkish War. The term is now, however, entirely out of use, even for these purposes: cf, eg the Peace Conferences of 1919 and 1946–7 at the end of the two world wars, and, more recently, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE),2 which met for some three years in the early 1970s.3 The term ‘conference’ is now universally used to describe all international assemblies in which matters come under discussion, whether with a view to settlement, with a view to arriving at particular agreements—by treaty or otherwise—which are designed to be binding on governments, or simply with a view to ventilating matters of concern or importance, or making recommendations to governments for action.4
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