The first international conference in The Hague was convened by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, with the aim of bringing together the most important countries in the world, to reach agreements on arms reduction. The most important agreement that was signed at the conference, which culminated on July 29, 1899, was the creation of a mechanism to peacefully resolve international conflicts, an agreement that materialized in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, known as the Court of Arbitration. Is.
After the First World War, nations came to the conclusion that arbitration was not the ideal solution to resolve international conflicts. Such was the prestige that the Court of Arbitration had achieved that it influenced the formation of the Permanent Court of Justice in The Hague, whose first session was held in that city in the Netherlands on February 16, 1922.
Created by the League of Nations, the body had the objective of judging the problems that arose between the States and would complete the action of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. On April 8, 1846, the League of Nations meets for the last time. Replaced in that year by the United Nations Organization; the Permanent Court of Justice, in turn, was replaced by the International Court of Justice of the United Nations.
#Court #Hague