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[p 289]
The President of the International Court of Justice,
having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Article 37 of
the Rules of Court,
having regard to the Order of 18 October 1958 whereby 18 June 1959 was fixed
as the time-limit for the filing of the Memorial of the Belgian Government,
and 18 February 1960 as the time-limit for the filing of the
Counter-Memorial of the Spanish Government, the subsequent procedure being
reserved for further decision,
Whereas, by a letter of 24 November 1959, the Agent for the Spanish
Government requested an extension to 18 August 1960 of the time-limit for
the filing of the Counter-Memorial, the reasons given in support of the
request being the number and the length of the documents annexed to the
Memorial, which it was necessary to verify and which were spread over
various countries, and the necessity, for the preparation of the defence, of
assembling other documents and evidence likewise spread over various
countries and drafted in various languages;
Whereas a copy of the above-mentioned letter was on the same day
communicated to the Agent for the Belgian Government who [p 290]was invited
to make known the views of his Government on the request thus presented;
Whereas, by a letter of 2 December 1959, the Agent for the Belgian
Government stated that the request gave rise to serious reservations ;
Decides to extend to 21 May 1960 the time-limit for the filing of the
Counter-Memorial of the Spanish Government, the subsequent procedure
remaining reserved for further decision.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this fifth day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and fifty-nine, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Belgian Government
and to the Spanish Government, respectively.
(Signed) Helge Klaestad,
President.
(Signed) Garnier-Coignet,
Deputy-Registrar. |
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