First Advisory Centre operationalization meeting in Bangkok, Thailand

2 to 4 December 2024

The meeting on the operationalization of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution ("AC-OP Meeting") was held at Siam Kempinski Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand from 2 to 4 December 2024.

The AC-OP Meeting is an informal forum to discuss operationalization issues pertaining to the establishment of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution, which focused on: (1) ways to establish the Advisory Centre within the United Nations system; (2) criteria to determine the location of the headquarters and regional offices; and (3) classification of Members of the Advisory Centre, in alignment with the decision by the Commission at its fifty-seventh session (A/79/17, paras. 157 – 166).

Dedicated website

Side-event invitation

Summary of the meeting

• A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.251 - Summary of the first meeting on the operationalization of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution submitted by the Government of Thailand

Background documents prepared to facilitate discussion

• AC/OP/BD.1 Provisional agenda
• AC/OP/BD.2 Ways to establish the Advisory Centre within the United Nations system
• AC/OP/BD.3 Classification of Members
• AC/OP/BD.4 Criteria to determine the location of the headquarters and regional offices
• AC/OP/BD.5 Budget and financing of the Advisory Centre - A sample 

Additional resources

• Excerpts of statements made by Member States before the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly relating to the Advisory Centre
• A/79/17 - Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Fifty-seventh session
• Statute of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution (adopted in principle in 2024)

Presentations by Governments expressing their interest in hosting the headquarters or regional offices of the Advisory Centre

• Armenia

• Cote d’Ivoire

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• France

• Ghana

• Thailand

Reform Element

• Multilateral Advisory Centre