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The Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO) is an international governmental organization established on 15 November 1956 in New Delhi and is a outgrowth of the Bandung Conference of 1955. Initially known as the Asian Legal Consultative Committee (ALCC), it served as an advisory board to 7 Asian member states (Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan and the United Arab Republic which then included Syria and Egypt) on matters of international law.
In order to include participation of countries of the continent of Africa its name was changed in April 1958 to Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC) and since 20 June 2001, it has been known by its current name, the AALCO.
Since 13 October 1980 it receives a standing United Nations invitation to participate as an observer in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining a permanent office at the New York Headquarters.
AALCO has currently several "Regional Centres for International Commercial Arbitration" (in Kuala Lumpur, Cairo, Lagos, Tehran, Nairobi and Hong Kong) with the objectives to promote international commercial arbitration in the Asian and African regions and enable it to be conducted under their auspices.
In 2014, the AALCO established an Informal Expert Group on Customary International Law which adopted a set of comments on the work of the International Law Commission on identification of customary international law.
It currently has 48 member states and is headquartered in New Delhi (India). The logo of AALCO, usually blue on white background, is an monochrome planisphere depicting the traditional continents of Africa and Asia, surrounded by the organization's name written in white. Its flag probably first appeared at the 59th annual conference in 2021 in Hong Kong, with the logo in white on a deep blue background.
Jean-Marc Merklin , 13 April 2025
