وأُشيرَ في هذا الشأن إلى أن محكمة العدل الدولية تميل إلى فهم "الاعتراف" بأنه شكل من أشكال القبول أو القبول الضمني؛ ولا يُعَدُّ هذا تأييداً وافياً لوجود نتيجة محددة من نتائج الاعتراف.
In its resolution 52/156 of 15 December 1997, the General Assembly took note of the Commission's preliminary conclusions and of its invitation to all treaty bodies set up by normative multilateral treaties that might wish to do so to provide, in writing, their comments and observations on the conclusions, while drawing the attention of Governments to the importance for the International Law Commission of having their views on the preliminary conclusions.