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The President of the Chamber of the International Court of Justice formed to
deal with the case concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the
Gulf of Maine Area between Canada and the United States of America,
Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Article 18,
paragraph 3, Article 31, Article 44, Article 46, Article 49, paragraph 3,
and Article 92 of the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the Special Agreement concluded on 29 March 1979, and
subsequently altered, between Canada and the United States of America to
submit to a chamber of the Court the delimitation of the maritime boundary
in the Gulf of Maine area,
Having regard to the Order of 5 November 1982 fixing 28 June 1983 as the
time-limit for the filing of the Counter-Memorial of each Party;
Whereas the Counter-Memorials of Canada and of the United States of America
were each filed within the said time-limit;
Whereas at a meeting held this day each of the two Agents informed the
President of the Chamber that his Government desired to be authorized to
file a further pleading;
Whereas under Article VI, paragraph 1, of the Special Agreement of 29 March
1979 the Chamber is requested to authorize the submission not [p 7] only of
Memorials and Counter-Memorials but also of any further pleadings it finds
necessary;
Whereas in the present case the filing of a reply by the Parties is found to
be necessary;
Authorizes the filing of replies by Canada and the United States of America
and fixes 12 December 1983 as the time-limit for the filing of such replies.
Done in French and in English, the French text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-seventh day of July, 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
Canada and to the Government of the United States of America, respectively.
(Signed) Roberto Ago,
President of the Chamber.
(Signed) Santiago Torres Bernerdez,
Registrar. |
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