First Advisory Centre operationalization meeting in Bangkok, Thailand (2–4 December 2024)

2 to 4 December 2024

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

The AC-OP Meeting will be an informal forum to discuss operationalization issues pertaining to the establishment of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution, which will focus 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

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)

Reform Element

• Multilateral Advisory Centre