India-AALCO-Annual Session
Six-member delegation from the Islamic Republic of Iran will be participating in Forty-Seventh Annual Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation (AALCO) to be held in India's national capital, Delhi next week.

Beside, Syed Mehdi Nabizadeh, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to New Delhi, a high level Iranian delegation from Department of Legal Affairs are participating in AALCO's annual session being held here from 30th June to 4th July.

The 47th session will be inaugurated by Hansraj Bharadwaj, India's Union Minister for Law and Justice.

While Social events organized as part of the Session will be attended by the E Ahamed, Minister of State for External Affairs and ther senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs.

Fifteen topics, including deportation of Palestinians, legal protection of migrant workers, WTO, international terrorism and environment and sustainable development are taken for deliberations at the session.

Further, a one-day Special Meeting in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be held on 2nd July to discuss on cluster munitions, landmines and private military and security companies from an international law perspective, as these issues are of high concerns for the Member States.

Beside Iran, dignitaries attending the session are from Pakistan, Oman, Yemen, Ghana, Saudi Arabia and Kenya.

The Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) is an international governmental organization formed in 1956, initially to serve as an advisory board to member states on matters on
international law.

Membership of the Organization is open to all Asian and African States that desire to participate in the Organization in accordance with its Statutes and Statutory Rules (Article 2(3)) of the Statutes.

AALCO presently have forty-eight countries as its members, comprising almost all the major States from Asia and Africa.

Observers from non-Member States, regional, inter-regional and international organizations and specialized agencies and national liberation movements recognized by the United Nations are admitted as Observers to attend the Annual Sessions of the Organization.

Australia and New Zealand have the status of Permanent Observers.

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