The present position within the ILC on the topic “Identification of customary international law”: in partial response to Sienho Yee, Report on the ILC Project on “Identification of Customary International Law”

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1. It is a great pleasure to be in Malaysia once again, and an honour to have the opportunity to address this distinguished gathering.TheAALCO’s interest in theworkof the International Law Commission is long-standing, and greatly welcomed. 2.This is a goodmoment to take stockof progress on the ILC’s topic on Identification of customary international law. The ILC’s 2015 annual report to the General Assembly records that, at itsmeeting on6August 2015, theCommission tooknote of the 16draft conclusions provisionally adopted by the Drafting Committee (A/70/10, para.61). These are expected to be considered by the Commission next year, in its sixty-eighth session. 3. The establishment, in Tehran in 2014, of a Working Group (later renamed Informal Expert Group) on Customary International Law, whose main objective is “to formulate responses to the work of the International Law Commission”