UN System Session 5 WS22/23

If an IO acts neither on the basis of implied nor on the basis of attributed powers, it acts…

• ultra zweies

• ultra dreies

• ultra vires

• ultras dynamo

An IO going beyond its competences when concluding a treaty makes the treaty...

• invalid if violation was manifest

• always invalid

• valid

• invalid if violation concerns unimportant rules

If an IO acts ultra vires, the member states…

• cannot be sure what to do, the question is not decided

• can decide themselves whether the act is void

• have to consult the “UV committee”

• nevertheless have to follow the act

The authority of the Security Council…

• is self-constituted

• originates from a delegation of powers

• is shared between Biden, Xi Jinping and Putin

• exists only in the Security Council’s imagination

The Tadić decision (1995) of the ICTY holds that…

• the GA is primarily responsible for the maintenance of peace and security

• the SC enjoys wide discretion under Art. 39 UNC

• the SC is legibus solutus

• the SC's power are bigger than the ones of the UN

The constitutive elements of an IO include…

• permanent organs

• a permanent address

• a permanent staffed office

• the permanent availability of the Secretary-General

General principles of IOs are…

• the IO's illegal personality

• the principle of royalty

• the mandate for international peace

• the principle of institutional balance

The legal personality of IO’s organs…

• does not exist

• is independent from the legal personality of the IO at large

• depends on the will of the IO’s member states

• has to be approved by the IO’s secretariat

According to the principle of loyalty (Art. 2(2) UNC)…

• the citizens must pay monthly tribute to their feudal lord

• the MS have to fulfill their obligations in good faith

• the MS have to obey the decisions of the P5

• the MS have to give the UN no assistance

One main committee of the General Assembly is the…

• World Health Committee

• Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee

• Illegal Committee

• International Labour Committee