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[p.9]
The International Court of Justice,
composed as above,
after deliberation,
having regard to Article 48 of the Statute and to Article 69 of the Rules of
Court,
Makes the following Order:
Having regard to the Application, dated 15 September 1958 and filed in the
Registry on 23 September 1958, by which the Belgian Government instituted
proceedings before the Court against the Spanish State in the case
concerning the Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited; [p 10]
Having regard to the Order of 18 October 1958 fixing 18 June 1959 for the
filing of the Memorial of the Belgian Government and 18 February i960 for
the riling of the Counter-Memorial of the Spanish Government;
Having regard to the Memorial filed by the Belgian Government within the
time-limit fixed;
Having regard to the Order of 5 December 1959 extending to 21 May 1960 the
date for the filing of the Counter-Memorial of the Spanish Government;
Having regard to the Preliminary Objections filed by the Spanish Government
within the time-limit fixed for the filing of the Counter-Memorial;
Having regard to the Order of 20 June 1960 recording that the proceedings on
the merits were thereby suspended and fixing 5 December i960 as the
time-limit within which the Belgian Government might present a written
statement of its Observations and Submissions with regard to the Preliminary
Objections;
Having regard to the Order of 11 November i960 extending that time-limit to
5 April 1961 at the request of the Belgian Government;
Whereas by a letter dated 23 March 1961 and received on 24 March the Agent
for the Belgian Government, referring to Article 69 of the Rules of Court,
informed the Registrar that his Government was not going on with the
proceedings;
Whereas on 24 March 1961 the Registrar transmitted a copy of that
communication to the Agent for the Spanish Government and by a letter of 28
March 1961 informed him that the Acting President of the Court, pursuant to
Article 69, paragraph 2, of the Rules of Court, had fixed a time-limit
expiring on 6 May 1961 at noon, within which the Spanish Government was to
state whether it opposed the discontinuance of the proceedings;
Whereas by a letter dated 5 April 1961 the Agent for the Spanish Government
informed the Registrar that his Government did not oppose the discontinuance
of the proceedings,
The Court
places on record the communications thus received from the two Governments
Parties to the case;
and consequently orders that the case shall 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 tenth day of April [p 11] one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-one, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of the
Kingdom of Belgium and to the Government of the Spanish State respectively.
(Signed) B. Winiarsky,
President.
(Signed) Garnier-Coignet,
Registrar. |
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