Annual Interest Group Membership Meeting (Saturday, April 9, 1994, Ballroom One of the ANA Hotel):

• Newsletter Format--The UNDIG (UN Decade Interest Group) Newsletter has been well-received and should continue in the current format. The Editor would like to receive more op-eds on matters of interest to Interest Group members. Members have been--and will be--contacted for this purpose by various Group members.
  
• Open Forum Summaries--The next issue (#5) of the Group's Newsletter will hopefully contain the summaries of the Open Forum presentations previously provided by the presenters to the Society. (See p.__ herein).
• Table of Contents in ASIL Newsletter Suggestion--The ASIL Newsletter should include a brief Table of Contents of our Newsletter (currently being considered by the ASIL).
  
• Suggested two-tiered Interest Group Dues Structure --The ASIL will be (has been) solicited for the purpose of determining whether copies of the UNDIG Newsletter should be sent to individuals who are not members of the Society or not members of UNDIG. Sixth Committee members, for example, would benefit from being added to the Newsletter mailing list. The Editor reported that the Society's Interest Group Officer breakfast meeting (Wednesday, April 7th, ANA Hotel) generated a similar suggestion on the issue of whether there should be a special membership category with slightly higher section dues for others who are not members of the ASIL. (As of this Newsletter, a two-tiered dues structure presents various difficulties for the ASIL.)
  
• Internet--UNDIG examined the possibility of placing its Newsletter on Internet. The Chair will examine this proposal for future consideration.
  
• News of Members --UNDIG members should submit news of their relevant activities to the Editor for inclusion in forthcoming issues of the Newsletter.
  
• Regional Outreach Network (RON)-- The ASIL's RON Committee was unable to meet this year at the Society's Annual Meeting. The Editor suggested that UNDIG members assist in this endeavor by lecturing to groups outside of their institutions--to bring the work of the Society to the public. Those present at the UNDIG meeting supported the adoption of this theme as one of the UNDIG objectives. This support will help the ASIL better acquaint tomorrow's leaders with International Law today. The Editor offered copies of a canned speech to any one wishing to give such lectures, entitled "What is International Law and Why Are They Saying All Those Nasty Things About It?" Newsletter readers should contact the Editor (Professor Slomanson) to obtain a copy.
  
• Qatar UN Decade of International Law Conference--UNDIG member Prof. Alfred Soons attended the recent 1994 Qatar Conference on the UN Decade of International Law. The theme was "Security and Peace in the Twenty-first Century." The State of Qatar invited a number of individuals to present papers and to attend. The resulting Declaration and conference proceedings will be published by Martinus Nijhoff. One theme was the proposed third Hague Conference to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the first such conference. (See Qatar Declaration, p.__ herein.)
  
• Chair's "Where-do-we-go-from-here" Discussion --Judge Macdonald led a discussion about future UNDIG activities. He will make arrangements for a regional meeting at the University of Santa Clara prior to the next Annual Meeting of the Society. Mr. Jeremy Thomas will shepard the development of additional UNDIG materials, organized under the four topics of the UN General Assembly's UN Decade resolution. Draft summaries will be forwarded to the Editor for inclusion in the UNDIG Newsletter. Attorney Tobi Dress led a discussion regarding organizing UNDIG's work around the four UNGA Resolution topics. Professor Slomanson has been and will continue to speak at universities and other related institutions on subjects of interest to the just-adopted Regional Outreach Network component of the UNDIG's work. Members may contact him for details regarding this facet of the Society's outreach program. Lic. Abraham Montez de Oca, formerly Mexico's Ambassador to the U.N. will forward information about UNDIG activities to International Law teachers in Mexico.
  
• The Chair raised the issue of whether we should continue with the current officers. The consensus was affirmative.
  
• The Chair will ask the ASIL to raise membership dues from $5.00 per year to, $10.00 per year, to better support UNDIG work.
  

• Chair Macdonald has just published his edited collection of Essays in Honour of Wang Tieya (Dordrecht, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff, 1994).
  
• Professor A.H.A. Soons, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, is the Chair of the Netherlands Society of International Law. He also attended the March, 1994 conference in Qatar on the U.N. Decade of International Law (see Qatar Report above).
  
• Professor Slomanson is working with several of the ASIL Open Forum scholars on developing their papers for publication.