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[p.3]
The President of the International Court of Justice,
Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Articles 44
and 46 of the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the Special Agreement concluded on 23 May 1976 between the
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Republic of Malta,
concerning the continental shelf, notified to the Court on 26 July 1982,
Having regard to the Order of 27 July 1982 fixing 26 April 1983 as the
time-limit for the filing of the Memorial of each Party;
Whereas the Memorial of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Memorial of the
Republic of Malta were each filed within the said time-limit;
Whereas Article II, paragraph 2, of the Special Agreement of 23 May 1976
provides (inter alia) for the subsequent pleadings to be submitted to the
Court and exchanged within four months after the filing of the Memorials;
Whereas at a meeting with the President of the Court on 26 April 1983 the
Agent of each of the two Parties informed him that, notwithstanding the
time-limit laid down in the Special Agreement, it was the desire of both
Parties that the time-limit for the filing of the Counter-Memorials should
be six months after the filing of the Memorials;
Fixes 26 October 1983 as the time-limit for the filing of Counter-Memorials
by the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Republic of Malta;
Reserves the subsequent procedure for further decision. [p 4]
Done in English and in French, the English text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-sixth day of April one thousand nine
hundred and eighty-three, in three copies, one of which will be placed in
the archives of the Court, and the others transmitted to the Government of
the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Government of the
Republic of Malta respectively.
(Signed) T.O.Elias,
President.
(Signed) Santiago Torres Bernerdez,
Registrar. |
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