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[p.174]
The International Court of Justice,
Composed as above,
After deliberation,
Makes the following Order:
Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Article 44 of
the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the Order of 21 April 1989 by which time-limits for the
written proceedings on the merits were fixed as follows: 19 September 1989
for the Memorial of Nicaragua and 19 February 1990 for the Counter-Memorial
of Honduras,
Having regard to the Order of 31 August 1989 by which the President of the
Court, at the request of Nicaragua, extended to 8 December 1989 the
time-limit for the Memorial of Nicaragua on the merits; and
Whereas the Memorial of Nicaragua was duly filed within the time-limit as so
extended;
Whereas when the Order of 31 August 1989 was adopted the question of
extension of the time-limit for the filing of the Counter-Memorial of
Honduras was reserved; [p 175]
Whereas by a letter dated 13 December 1989 and received in the Registry the
same day, the Agent of Nicaragua transmitted to the Court a copy of an
agreement in Spanish reached by the Presidents of the Central American
countries on 12 December 1989 in San Isidro de Coronado, Costa Rica, and
drew the attention of the Court in particular to paragraph 13 of that
agreement;
Whereas by a letter dated 13 December 1989 and received in the Registry on
14 December 1989, the Agent of Honduras similarly informed the Court of the
agreement of 12 December 1989 and referred in particular to paragraph 13
thereof;
Whereas that paragraph records the agreement of the President of Nicaragua
and the President of Honduras, in the context of arrangements aimed at
achieving an extra-judicial settlement of the dispute which is the subject
of the present proceedings, to instruct their Agents in the case to
communicate immediately, either jointly or separately, the agreement to the
Court, and to request the postponement of the date for the fixing of the
time-limit for the presentation of the Counter-Memorial of Honduras until 11
June 1990;
Whereas that paragraph further provides that if no extra-judicial settlement
of the dispute has been reached by that date, either Party may request that
Honduras be granted six months for the filing of its Counter-Memorial;
Taking into account the agreement of the Parties, in accordance with Article
44, paragraph 2, of the Rules of Court,
The Court,
Unanimously,
Decides that the time-limit for the filing by the Republic of Honduras of a
Counter-Memorial on the merits is extended from 19 February 1990 to a date
to be fixed by an order to be made after 11 June 1990.
Done in English and in French, the English text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and eighty-nine, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of the
Republic of Nicaragua and the Government of the Republic of Honduras,
respectively.
(Signed) José Maria Ruda,
President.
(Signed) Eduardo Valencia-Ospina,
Registrar. |
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