“ Good services ” is in international law one of the means for the peaceful settlement of disputes between states.
“Good services” means the assistance of a state or an international body to establish contact and initiate direct negotiations between the disputing parties aimed at a peaceful resolution of the conflict. "Good services" are in the nature of advice, optional for the parties involved.
The state rendering “Good services” does not participate in the negotiations themselves or in the settlement of the dispute. This “good service” is different from mediation .
“Good services” can be applied both in the conditions of peace and military conflict. An example of the “Good Services”, which had a great progressive significance for international relations, is the “Good Services” of the Soviet Union , which led to the meeting of representatives of India and Pakistan and the signing of the Tashkent Declaration of 1966 .
The main provisions on the procedure for the use of “Good Services” are contained in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. According to the UN Charter, the UN Security Council may provide “Good services” to the disputing parties (Articles 33, 36, 38 of the UN Charter).
See also
- Mediation
Literature
- Legal Encyclopedia / Ed. ed. B. N. Topornin. - M .: Yurist, 2001. ISBN 5-7975-0429-4 .
- Large legal dictionary / Ed. A. Ya. Sukharev, V. D. Zorkin, V. E. Krutskikh. - M .: INFRA-M, 1998. ISBN 5-86226-578-8 (err.) .
- The course of international law, 2 ed., M., 1966.