Georgia joins the Netherlands' Permanent Court of Arbitration

Georgia has joined the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an international organisation based in The Hague in the Netherlands, to facilitate arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution between states.

Georgia deposited its instrument of accession to the 1907 Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the depositary of the Convention, on 21 January 2015. With this, it thereby became a Member State of the PCA, effective March 22, 2015.

Georgia was the 117th Member State of the PCA.

The PCA welcomed this expression of support for the work of the PCA and the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

The PCA is an intergovernmental organisation established in 1899 to facilitate arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution between states. The PCA has developed into a modern, multi-faceted arbitral institution that is now situated at the juncture between public and private international law to meet the rapidly evolving dispute resolution needs of the international community.

Today the PCA provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties.

The PCA's Secretariat, the International Bureau, headed by its Secretary-General, provides administrative support to tribunals and commissions. Its caseload reflects the breadth of PCA involvement in international dispute resolution, encompassing territorial, treaty, and human rights disputes between states, as well as commercial and investment disputes, including disputes arising under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties.