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The President of the International Court of Justice,
having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court,
having regard to Article 37 of the Rules of Court,
Makes the following Order :
Having regard to the Order of March 13th, 1956, whereby the Court fixed June
15th, 1956, as the time-limit for the filing of the Memorial of the
Government of the Republic of Portugal and December 15th, 1956, as the
time-limit for the filing of the Counter-Memorial of the Government of the
Republic of India, and reserved the rest of the procedure for further
decision ;
Whereas the Memorial of the Government of Portugal was filed within the
time-limit so fixed ;
Whereas by a letter dated November 10th, 1956, a certified true copy of
which was transmitted by the Registrar to the Agent for the Government of
Portugal on November 12th, 1956, the Agent for the Government of India,
after restating the intention of his Government to file a Preliminary
Objection to the exercise of jurisdiction by the Court in this case,
referred, among other con-[p 171]siderations, to exceptional difficulties
which had been encountered by his Government in the preparation of its
pleading and requested that the time-limit fixed by the said Order of March
13th, 1956, be extended for an additional period of not less than six months
;
Whereas by a letter dated November 26th, 1956, the Agent for the Government
of Portugal, while maintaining that the request of the Government of India
was not sufficiently justified, and that his Government could not agree to a
postponement of the assigned time-limit for a substantial period, stated
that if nevertheless a postponement for reasons beyond the control of the
Government of India be imperative, the Government of Portugal was prepared
to trust "the Court's discretion to make the extension as short as required
by the interest of justice" ;
The President of the International Court of Justice,
After conferring with the Agents of the Parties and taking into account
their respective positions,
Decides
To postpone to April 15th, 1957, the time-limit for the filing of the
Counter-Memorial or of the Preliminary Objection of the Government of the
Republic of India ;
And reserves the rest of the procedure for further decision.
Done in English and in French, the English text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-seventh day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and fifty-six, in three copies, one of which wil1 be placed in
the archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of
the Republic of Portugal and to the Government of the Republic of India,
respectively.
(Signed) Green H. Hackworth,
President.
(Signed) J. López Oliván,
Registrar. |
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