ولاحظوا في هذا الصدد أنه إذا ما فُسر نطاق الموضوع تفسيراً عريضاً بحيث يشمل سلوك الدول، فإن مسعى اللجنة، الذي يتصف أصلاً بصعوبة بالغة، قد يصبح من قبيل المستحيل.
He indicated that his sixth report had focused on recognition because the Commission had requested him to proceed along those lines in 2002, but that he had sought to expose the general characteristics of the unilateral act of recognition and not to present a study of the institution of recognition per se.