Introduction

The INVEST-SD Bulletin of March 10 2005 (published by IISD) has a story reporting that South Centre (www.southcentre.org), an intergovernmental organization comprised of 48 developing countries and headed by former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali, released a report last month that was highly critical of the ICSID Secretariat's Discussion Paper proposing changes in the ICSID framework. Among the specific proposals that were criticized by South Centre were the suggestions that ICSID tribunals could permit the filing of amicus briefs and open their hearings to ...