Confidentiality of Conciliation Proceedings and Their Outcome. A Reflection in Light of the Experience of the Timor-Leste/Australia Conciliation Commission

The contribution addresses the role of confidentiality in conciliation, discussing whether the pull towards transparency that is gradually being developed in international investment arbitration could and should find a parallel in inter- State conciliation proceedings of the kind that may be submitted to the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE, also in light of the recent, successful example relating to the Timor Sea between Timor-Leste and Australia, where issues of transparency were dealt with in an extremely careful, expedient and ‘modern’ way,