paragraph 245 in volume 2, chapter 15, Advisory Jurisdiction
The first examination of the phrase ‘arising within the scope of [its] activities’ in Article 96, paragraph 2, of the Charter occurred in the Privileges and Immunities Convention advisory opinion as regards activities of a subsidiary organ of the United Nations. This was followed shortly afterwards by the Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict advisory opinion as regards a specialized agency.1 In the first of those cases, ECOSOC adopted the decision to make the req…