THE HAGUE - Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten are hardly involved in the establishment of international conventions that the Netherlands closes. They have also little influence on whether or not a treaty is entered into for the entire kingdom. Where the countries are involved, The Hague gives them little time to take a position.
This can be drawn up from the advice that the Council of the Kingdom of the Kingdom has drawn up unsolicited - so on its own initiative.
"With some regularity, the advice department of the Council of State (of the Kingdom) determines that the conclusion, ratification and implementation of treaties does not easily match the structure of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The kingdom is one legal subject in international legal proceedings. The starting point in international law is that treaty relationships for the entire legal subject are entered into, all of its exceptions possible. The Statute for the Kingdom is based on the autonomy of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Tension can occur between both starting points,” says the Council of State in its report.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister Kaag has sent the report to the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament. “It is my intention, together with the Undersecretary of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, to send a report in the autumn with a response to the reflections of the advice of the Council of the State of the Kingdom and the advice provided at its own initiative with the recommendations.”