Second Advisory Centre operationalization meeting in Yerevan, Armenia
6 to 8 May 2025
The second meeting on the operationalization of the Advisory Centre on International Investment Dispute Resolution ("AC-OP Meeting") will be held at Elite Plaza Business Center, Yerevan, Armenia from 6 to 8 May 2025.
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 for determining the location of the headquarters and regional offices; (3) classification of Members of the Advisory Centre; (4) budget and financing, including the amount of contributions by Members and methods of payment; and (5) thresholds of membership and contributions for the entry into force of the Statute, in alignment with the decision by the Commission at its fifty-seventh session (A/79/17, paras. 157 – 166).
Please note that participants intending to attend in person are requested to complete their registration by 18 April 2025.
Background documents prepared to facilitate discussion
- AC/OP/BD.6 Provisional agenda - advance copy
- AC/OP/BD.7 Ways to establish the Advisory Centre within the United Nations system - advance copy
- AC/OP/BD.8 Criteria to determine the location of the headquarters and regional offices - advance copy
- AC/OP/BD.9 Classification of the Members of the Advisory Centre
- AC/OP/BD.10 Budget of the Advisory Centre
- AC/OP/BD.11 Financial Frameworks in establishing the Advisory Centre
- AC/OP/BD.12 Road map for the operationalization of the Advisory Centre - advance copy
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)
- A/CN.9/1196 - Report of Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) on the work of its fifty-first session, first part (New York, 17–19 February 2025)
- Webpage of the first Advisory Centre operationalization meeting in Bangkok, Thailand (2–4 December 2024)
- 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