No state may opt-out from norms that have acquired the status of customary international law, Cyprus’ representative at the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly, Charis Chrysostomou, said, during an intervention on October 15 on the “Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts”. “The position of my delegation concerning the responsibility of states for internationally wrongful acts is well known. We consider that, in adopting its draft articles on state responsibility in 2001, the ILC codified customary international law,” Chrysostomou …








