Practice question
A UN agent suffers injury while performing an official mission in circumstances engaging a State's international responsibility. The UN seeks reparation for harm to its institutional interests and the mission-related injury. The respondent says the absence of UN statehood necessarily defeats all such capacity. Which is best under the 1949 opinion?
- Absence of statehood automatically ends the inquiry
- Only the agent's nationality can ever matter
- The recognized international personality and functional protection capacity answer that categorical objection, subject to the relevant legal conditions
- The UN becomes the agent's national State
- Any injury automatically proves unlimited damages
Legal references
- ICJ, Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, April 11, 1949, principal advisory opinion: https://icj-web.leman.un-icc.cloud/sites/default/files/case-related/4/004-19490411-ADV-01-00-EN.pdf
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