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The President of the International Court of Justice,
having regard to ,4rticle 48 of the Statute of the Court
having regard to .Article 37 of the Rules of Court ;
Whereas on December 17th, 1951, the Government of the Principality of
Liechtenstein caused to be filed in the Registry of the Court an
Application, dated December 10th, 1951, instituting proceedings against the
Republic of Guatemala concerning measures taken by the latter Government
against the person and the property of Friedrich Nottebohm, a citizen of
Liechtenstein ;
Whereas the Application invokes the Declaration dated March 29th, 1950,
whereby the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein accepted the
conditions determined by the General Assembly of the United Nations and thus
became a party to the Statute of the Court. ;
Whereas the Application further invokes the Declarations by which the
Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Government of the
Republic of Guatemala accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court in
accordance with Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Court, thus
specifying the provision on which the Applicant f0und.s the jurisdiction of
the Court ; [p 11]
Whereas, by a letter received in the Registry on December 17th, 1951, the
Chief of Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein notified the Court
of the appointment as Agent for that Government of Dr. Erwin H. Loewenfeld,
LL.B., Legal Adviser to the Government of the Principality, and of his
address for service at the seat of the Court ;
Whereas the Application, which bears the signature of the Agent, duly
certified by the Chief of the Princely Government, States the nature of the
claim and gives a succinct statement of the facts and grounds on which the
claim is based ;
Whereas, therefore, the Application fulfils the formal conditions laid down
by the .Rules of Court;
Whereas, on December 17th, 1951, the Government of the Republic of Guatemala
was duly informed by telegram of the filing of the Application, of which a
certified true copy was despatched to it on December 18th, 1951 ;
Fixes as follows the time-limits for the filing by the Parties of the first
two pleadings :
for the Memorial of the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein :
April 2nd, 1952 ;
for the Counter.-Memorial of the Government of the Republic of Guatemala :
July 12th, 1952 ;
And reserves the rest of the procedure for further decision.
Done in French and English, the French text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and fifty-two, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others will be transmitted to the Governments
of the Principality of Liechtenstein and of the Republic of Guatemala,
respectively.
(Signed) Basdevant,
President.
(Signed) E. Hambro,
Registrar. |
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