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[p.105]
The International Court of Justice,
Composed as above,
After deliberation,
Makes the following Order:
Whereas on 29 March 1994 the Republic of Cameroon filed in the Registry of
the Court an Application instituting proceedings against the Federal
Republic of Nigeria in respect of a dispute described as relating
essentially "to the question of sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula", and
whereas the Court was thereby also requested to determine part of the
maritime boundary between the two States;
Whereas the Federal Republic of Nigeria was on 29 March 1994 notified by the
Registrar, by telex and by letter, of the filing of the Application, and a
certified copy thereof was transmitted to it; [p 106]
Whereas in the Application the Republic of Cameroon notified the Court of
the appointment of H.E. Mr. Douala Moutome as Agent and of Mr. Maurice Kamto
and Mr. Yana Peter Ntamark as Co-Agents;
Whereas by a letter dated 22 April 1994 the Federal Republic of Nigeria
informed the Court of the appointment of H.E. Mr. Olu Onagoruwa as Agent and
of H.E. Mr. Ibrahim Bindawa as Co-Agent;
Whereas by the same letter the Federal Republic of Nigeria notified the
Court of its intention to choose Mr. Bola Ajibola to sit as judge ad hoc in
the case; and whereas no objection to that appointment was raised by the
other Party or appeared to the Court, and the Parties were so informed by
the Registrar by a letter of 16 May 1994;
Whereas by a letter dated 5 May 1994 the Republic of Cameroon notified the
Court of its intention to choose Mr. Kéba Mbaye to sit as judge ad hoc in
the case; and whereas no objection to that appointment was raised by the
other Party or appeared to the Court, and the Parties were so informed by
the Registrar by a letter of 6 June 1994;
Whereas on 6 June 1994 the Republic of Cameroon filed in the Registry of the
Court an Application additional to the Application filed on 29 March 1994,
"for the purpose of extending the subject of the dispute" to a further
dispute described as relating essentially "to the question of sovereignty
over a part of the territory of Cameroon in the area of Lake Chad";
Whereas in the Additional Application the Republic of Cameroon requested the
Court to specify definitively the frontier between Cameroon and Nigeria from
Lake Chad to the sea, and requested the Court to join the two Applications
"and to examine the whole in a single case";
Whereas on 7 June 1994 the Registrar informed the Agent of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria of the filing of the Additional Application and
transmitted to him a certified copy thereof;
Whereas at a meeting between the President and the representatives of the
Parties held on 14 June 1994, the Agent of the Republic of Cameroon
explained that it had not been the intention of his Government to present a
separate Application, but that the Additional Application was intended
rather as an amendment of the initial Application;
Whereas at that meeting the Agent of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
indicated that his Government had no objection to the Additional Application
being treated as an amendment to the initial Application, so that the Court
could deal with the whole as one case; and whereas the Court sees no
objection to such a procedure; [p 107]
Whereas the Parties were, at the same meeting, consulted as to the
time-limits to be fixed for written pleadings addressed to the
subject-matter of the Application and of the Additional Application;
THE COURT,
Having ascertained the views of the Parties,
Fixes the following time-limits for the written proceedings:
16 March 1995 for the Memorial of the Republic of Cameroon;
18 December 1995 for the Counter-Memorial of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria; and
Reserves the subsequent procedure for further decision.
Done in French and in English, the French text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred and ninety-four, 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 Cameroon and the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
respectively.
(Signed) Mohammed BEDJAOUI,
President.
(Signed) Eduardo VALENCIA-OSPINA,
Registrar. |
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