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Viewing cable 08USUNNEWYORK686, UNITED NATIONS - LEGAL EXPERTS COMPLETE FINAL

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08USUNNEWYORK686 2008-07-31 18:16 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY USUN New York
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OO RUEHWEB

DE RUCNDT #0686/01 2131816
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 311816Z JUL 08
FM USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4716
UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000686 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: AORC APER PREL UNGA UNGA UNGA
SUBJECT: UNITED NATIONS - LEGAL EXPERTS COMPLETE FINAL 
CONSULTATIONS ON ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE STATUTES 
 
REF: A. USUN/IO EMAIL (WILCOX/HACKETT)-07/16/08 
     B. USUN 562 
     C. STATE 51372 
     D. USUN 491 
     E. USUN 413 
     F. STATE 37257 
 
1.  (U) BEGIN SUMMARY:  General Assembly Sixth (Legal) 
Committee experts considered the draft statutes for the new 
UN Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) and the UN Appeals Tribunal (UNAT) 
from June 30-July 3.  While delegations made progress, they 
did not reach agreement on all provisions of the statutes. 
The General Assembly agreed on July 28 that the Ad Hoc 
Committee on Administration of Justice would meet once in 
August to allow the German Coordinator to report on the 
discussions and to have his summary, as set forth in an 
annotated table containing proposed amendments to the draft 
statutes (ref A), issued as an addendum to the April 2008 
report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/63/55).  That meeting will 
take place on August 5.  USUN expects the Sixth Committee to 
consider the statutes based on the Coordinator's texts next 
fall, unless the Fifth Committee (Administrative and 
Budgetary Questions), which will ultimately adopt the 
statutes, does so first.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  (U) BACKGROUND:  The German Mission's Legal Adviser 
coordinated the final round of informal consultations of 
Sixth Committee experts on the draft statutes for the new UN 
Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) and UN Appeals Tribunal on June 
30-July 3.  Sixth Committee experts had held two previous 
rounds of informal consultations on the draft statutes on May 
12-16 and June 9-11 (ref B).  Delegations remain divided on 
issues of principle such as the number of judges to hear 
certain cases before the UNDT, whether to allow the UNAT to 
address de novo issues of fact, or whether to allow the UNDT 
and the UNAT to grant interim temporary relief.  Most 
delegations also continued to oppose as unnecessary and 
overly complex various U.S. technical proposals to define and 
in some cases limit the tribunals' powers. 
 
3.  (U) SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION--UNDT:  Sixth Committee 
delegates agreed to recommend that the UNDT retain the 
subject-matter jurisdiction of the current UN Administrative 
Tribunal, as the United States had proposed. 
 
4.  (SBU) SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION-UNAT:  Many delegations 
reacted negatively to the written U.S. proposals concerning 
the circumstances under which the UNAT could reverse or 
modify the UNDT's findings of fact.  The G-77, for example, 
argued that the U.S. language was too complicated and would 
make it virtually impossible for the UNAT to reverse or 
modify the UNDT.  COMMENT:  USUN understands that the G-77 
was prepared to accept the U.S. proposals on this issue set 
forth in ref C, and believes that a simplified proposal might 
be more acceptable to some other delegations.  See ref B. 
END COMMENT. 
 
5.  (U) SCOPE:  Delegations remained divided over the 
Secretariat's proposal to allow the UNDT to hear claims 
brought by non-staff personnel.  The G-77 argued that the 
Fifth Committee should make a final decision on the issue 
next fall and that the Sixth Committee had exhausted its 
discussions on the issue.  Others contended that the General 
Assembly should agree next fall on a new means of recourse 
for the UN's non-staff personnel that would replace the UN's 
current use of arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules.  The EU 
and others proposed that the UNDT should not be open to 
non-staff personnel initially, but that the Sixth Committee 
should continue to consider types of recourse available to 
ensure that non-staff personnel have an effective remedy for 
resolving their disputes with the UN. 
 
6.  (U) USUN has advised other delegations that the United 
States will present an alternative proposal next fall for 
alternative dispute resolution based on simplified 
arbitration procedures that are locally and regionally based. 
 Mission requests instructions and text of the proposal by 
the beginning of the fall session of the GA (mid-September). 
In the meantime, Mission will seek to develop information and 
analysis on that matter, and will keep the Department 
apprised of its efforts. 
 
7.  (U) STAFF ASSOCIATIONS:  Delegations agreed that the UNDT 
and the UNAT could consider "friend of the court" briefs but 
not class action suits brought by staff associations.  The 
G-77 continued to maintain that staff associations should be 
able to bring claims in their own right, however. 
 
8.  (SBU) JUDGES:  Delegations remained divided over the 
Secretariat's proposal to allow the UNDT to refer a case to 
three-judge panels of the UNDT, with the EU and the G-77 
continuing to insist that such panels should be able to hear 
 
 
cases "when necessary by reason of complexity."  Delegations 
could not agree to an informal Australian proposal to allow 
the UNDT to refer a specific legal question to a panel of 
UNDT judges to resolve.  The EU and the G-77 both also 
rejected USUN's effort to modify the Australian compromise to 
have legal questions referred to the UNAT, arguing that doing 
so would create unnecessary delays since the UNAT will not be 
a standing body and might also prejudice the UNAT's 
consideration of appeals.  COMMENT:  If we are prepared to 
agree to allow UNDT judges to refer specific legal questions 
to panels of UNDT judges, the EU and the G-77 might settle 
for language allowing the UNDT to refer legal questions but 
not entire cases to panels of UNDT judges.  In any event, the 
EU has made clear that this issue represents its key redline. 
 END COMMENT. 
 
10.  (U) SELECTION OF JUDGES:  Delegations resolved various 
issues on the statutory language concerning the selection of 
judges but could not agree on whether the statutes should say 
that the General Assembly should appoint or elect judges. 
The G-77 insisted that the General Assembly should elect 
judges and should not do so by acclamation, while the 
European Union argued that the statute should use the word 
"appointed," consistent with the language in GA resolution 
62/228. 
 
11.  (U) TRANSITIONAL MEASURES:  At delegations' request, the 
German Coordinator prepared a list of options for the Fifth 
Committee to consider.  That list includes the U.S. proposal 
that any claims should be transferred to the new system of 
justice unless a Joint Appeals Board or Joint Disciplinary 
Committee has been constituted to address them as of December 
31, 2008. 
 
12.  (U) AWARDS:  Delegations agreed that the Secretariat's 
proposal to allow the two tribunals to award interest or 
costs required additional consideration, given the financial 
implications and potential incentives or disincentives to 
litigation that such awards could create. 
 
13.  (U) OTHER ISSUES:  The EU and the G-77 continued to 
oppose various U.S. technical proposals to clarify the 
tribunals' powers and, in many cases, circumscribe their 
discretion, arguing that many of these issues should be 
addressed in the tribunals' rules of procedure.  For 
instance, the circumstances under which the UNDT and the UNAT 
can provide temporary relief remained in dispute.  The G-77 
made a promising offer to allow the UNDT to grant temporary 
relief to exclude the tribunal from doing so in cases 
involving appointments and terminations, but withdrew it when 
USUN would not agree to accept its proposal concerning the 
scope of the UNAT's jurisdiction and to permit the UNDT to 
hear claims brought by staff associations in their own right. 
 The G-77 also continued to insist on a five-year statute of 
limitations, and the EU and the G-77 opposed U.S. efforts 
define the registries' role with respect to summary 
dismissals and to require litigants to take informal measures 
before appealing to the UNDT to enforce mediation agreements. 
 
14.  (SBU) The EU, Switzerland, and G-77 also continued to 
insist that the UNDT and UNAT statutes should require the 
Secretary-General to provide for the travel and related costs 
of staff and judges (ref B).  COMMENT:  Since the General 
Assembly has already addressed this issue with respect to the 
UNDT, there should be room for compromise on the UNDT 
statute.  Whether such language is acceptable for the UNAT, 
in the absence of a General Assembly decision on the matter, 
requires closer consideration.  Switzerland and others argue 
that resolution 62/228 should be read to cover both the UNDT 
and the UNAT and want that language in the UNAT statute to 
ensure that the UNAT will sit both in New York and in Geneva, 
as the current UN Administrative Tribunal does.  END COMMENT. 
 
15.  (U) NEXT STEPS:  The Fifth and Sixth Committees will 
consider the statutes with a view to adopting them in the 
fall.  A Working Group of the Sixth Committee is scheduled to 
meet eight times in October to discuss the legal aspects of 
the reform of the UN's system of justice.  USUN expects the 
Working Group to discuss the draft statutes and other aspects 
of the reform initiative, including the mandate of the new 
Office of Staff Legal Assistance and means of recourse for 
non-staff personnel.  The Fifth Committee's schedule for 
considering the issue is unlikely to be completed until 
September.  Delay in reaching consensus on the draft statutes 
will affect the start-up of the new system of justice.  The 
GA has previously agreed that the new system should commence 
on January 1, 2009.    While all elements may not be fully 
operational by January 1, 2009, there is consensus that the 
GA should complete action on the statutes and other matters 
"essential" to the operations of the new system by the 
conclusion of the fall session. 
Khalilzad