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[p.186]
The President of the International Court of Justice,
Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Article 68 of
the Rules of Court;
Having regard to the Application filed in the Registry of the Court on 13
February 1959, by which the Government of the French Republic instituted
proceedings before the Court against the Government of the Republic of
Lebanon alleging that certain measures taken by the latter Government were
contrary to undertakings given by it in an agreement concluded on 24
January 1948 between France and Lebanon;
Having regard to the Memorial filed by the French Government on 18 August
1959;
Having regard to the Preliminary Objections filed by the Lebanese Government
on 23 December 1959;
Having regard to the Order of 6 January 1960, recording that the proceedings
on the merits were thereby suspended and fixing 10 February 1960 as the
time-limit within which the French Government might present a written
statement of its Observations and Submissions on the Objections raised by
the Government of Lebanon; [p 187]
Having regard to the Observations and Submissions filed by the French
Government within the time-limit fixed;
Whereas, by a letter dated 24 May 1960 arid received in the Registry on 4
June 1960, the Agent for the French Government informed the Registrar that,
as the result of conversations between the Government of the Republic of
Lebanon and the French Embassy at Beirut, satisfactory arrangements had been
concluded, and that the Government of the French Republic considered that
the conclusion and execution of new undertakings by the Government of the
Republic of Lebanon put an end to the disputes which had been submitted to
the Court by the Application of 13 February 1959;
Whereas, by a letter dated 22 August 1960 and received in the Registry on 23
August 1960, the Lebanese chargé d'affaires a.i. in London informed the
Registrar that, following conversations between the Lebanese Government and
the French Embassy in Beirut, the case of the Société Radio-Orient had been
settled by an arrangement of 11 May i960 and the case of the 'Compagnie du
Port, des Quais et des Entrepôts de Beyrouth had been settled by an
arrangement of 13 April 1960;
Whereas, by a letter dated 26 August i960 and received in the Registry on 29
August 1960, the Lebanese chargé d'affaires a.i. in London transmitted to
the Registrar the text of the Convention of 13 April 1960 between the State
of Lebanon and the Compagnie du Port, des Quais et des Entrepôts de Beyrouth
and a copy, together with a certified translation in French, of the official
notification of the Decision of 11 May 1960 of the Council of Ministers of
Lebanon regarding the Société Radio-Orient, these documents establishing the
arrangements concluded and relating to the disputes submitted to the Court;
Places on record the communications thus received from the Parties to the
case;
Orders that the case be removed from the Court's List.
Done in French and in English, the French text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and sixty, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of the
French Republic and to the Government of the Republic of Lebanon,
respectively.
(Signed) Helge Klaestad,
President.
(Signed) L. M. Mitchell,
Acting Registrar. |
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