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27 Nordisk Tidsskrift Int'l Ret 1 (1957)
International Organisations and Their Functions in the Field of Internal Activities of States

handle is hein.journals/nordic27 and id is 13 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS IN THE FIELD OF INTERNAL ACTIVITIES OF STATES By ROBERTO AGO I. In considering the phenomenon of international organisation, greater importance is generally attributed to those functions which the bodies created for organising co-operation among States carry out in what might be termed the field of direct inter-State political relations. International organisation, from the League of Nations to the United Nations, has appeared to its observers above all as a system of procedures for the peaceful solution of controversies and of instruments designed for the maintenance of peace and for col- lective security. No-one can deny, furthermore, that this aspect of the phenomenon is the one responding to the more immediate ex- pectations of public opinion, nor that it is, at the same time, the more spectacular of these aspects and, at first sight, the more im- portant. However, if we consider this aspect alone, we shall certainly come to neglect another aspect which grows every day more important and is, in my opinion, certainly no less essential than the first. This second aspect is fundamental even for the same purpose of keeping peace between States, while, on the other hand, it is perhaps the best suited to bring about, in due time, a profound and radical trans- formation in world life. It lies in the action that international organisations carry out, with ever-increasing intensity, in the field of the internal activities of States. This activity has many forms, some- times new in the history of international relations, and appears capable of bringing about highly relevant consequences. 2. The significance of the fact to which I should like to draw attention becomes clear if we keep in mind the important part that has come to be assumed, within the general framework of the mis- sion of international organisations, by their functions in the field of the internal activities of States, even in the case of organs created for general objectives. Moreover, this significance is enhanced when we come to consider the now really impressive number of international

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