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706 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6)Eleventh session: 2-28 October 2000“Article 19“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 paragraph3 of 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 and finalizedarticle 19 of the draft protocol without further amendment. The article was approvedby the Ad Hoc Committee at its twelfth session (see the final text of the protocol,as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383/Add.2, sect. III, draftresolution, annex), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuantto resolutions 54/126 of 17 December 1999 and 55/25 of 15 November 2000).B. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/255, annex)III.Final provisionsArticle 16Settlement 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, be