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424 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.7)Eleventh session: 2-28 October 2000“Article 15“Settlement of disputes“l. States Parties shall endeavour to settle disputes concerning the interpretationor application of this Protocol through negotiation.“2. Any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretationor application of this Protocol that cannot be settled through negotiation withina reasonable time shall, at the request of one of those States Parties, be submittedto arbitration. If, six months after the date of the request for arbitration, those StatesParties are unable to agree on the organization of the arbitration, any one of thoseStates Parties may refer the dispute to the International Court of Justice by requestin accordance with the Statute of the Court.“3. Each State Party may, at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance orapproval of or accession to this Protocol, declare that it does not consider itself boundby paragraph 2 of this article. The other States Parties shall not be bound by paragraph2 of this article with respect to any State Party that has made such a reservation.“4. Any State Party that has made a reservation in accordance with paragraph 3of this article may at any time withdraw that reservation by notification to theSecretary-General of the United Nations.”Notes by the Secretariat3. At its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee considered, finalized and approvedarticle 15 without further amendment (see the final text of the protocol, as included inthe report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383, sect. IV, draft resolution, annex II), thatwas submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuant to resolution 54/126 of17 December 1999).B. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex II)Article 15Settlement of disputesl. States Parties shall endeavour to settle disputes concerning the interpretationor application of this Protocol through negotiation.2. Any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretationor application of this Protocol that cannot be settled through negotiationwithin a reasonable time shall, at the request of one of those States Parties, besubmitted to arbitration. If, six months after the date of the request for arbitration,those States Parties are unable to agree on the organization of the arbitration,any one of those States Parties may refer the dispute to the InternationalCourt of Justice by request in accordance with the Statute of the Court.