On May 1st-5th, 2017, the 56th annual meeting of the AALCO was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Professor Huang Zhixiong, deputy director of the Institute of International Law, participated as a member of the Chinese delegation and the rapporteur of the organization’s cyberspace international law working group. meeting.

At this annual meeting, representatives from 47 member countries of the AALCO discussed and reviewed issues such as the work and progress of the United Nations International Law Commission, refugee status and treatment, legal issues of violent extremism and terrorism, the recent development of the International Criminal Court, international law on cyberspace , and adopted a number of relevant resolutions. Among them, the cyberspace international law working group is currently the only formal working group of the AALCO, and its future work is highly expected by the member states. In the resolution adopted at this annual meeting on the topic of international law on cyberspace, the rapporteur of the Open-ended Working Group on the International Law on the Authorization of Cyberspace, on the basis of the discussions so far between Member States and the special studies prepared by the Secretariat, Report, presenting the future work programme of the working group. Under this mandate, Professor Huang Zhixiong will be responsible for the preparation of the report as a rapporteur and make relevant recommendations for the future work programme of the working group for consideration and consideration by the AALCO member states.

During the meeting, Professor Huang Zhixiong also worked with Dr. Kennedy Gastorn, Secretary General of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, and Chairman of the Working Group on International Law of Cyberspace, Mr. Hossein Panahiazar, Director of the International Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, communicated and discussed several times on the work of the AALCO in the field of cyberspace international law.