Seminar on “The legal aspects of the role of the host State of international organisations”

14:00

Chair:

Keynote speakers:

Opening of the seminar

PROGRAMME

Ms Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Netherlands), Chair of the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI)

 Mr Niels Blokker, Professor of International Institutional Law, Leiden University, (the Netherlands)

Legal aspects of the relationship between international organisations and their host States: from theory to practice

 Ms Caroline Kraege, Head of the Diplomatic and Consular Law Section, Directorate of International Law, Federal Department for Foreign Affairs (Switzerland)

The role of Switzerland as a host State of international organisations

•   Mr Jörg Polakiewicz, Jurisconsult and Director of Legal Advice and Public International Law (Council of Europe)

  The Council of Europe and its host States: legal and practical aspects

•   Ms Anne-Sophie Massa, Legal Counsel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (the Netherlands) The Hague: world criminal capital? Or how the international criminal jurisdictions

  pose new challenges to their host State

15:30 Questions and discussion 16:30 Closing of the seminar