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[p.1042]
The International Court of Justice,
Composed as above,
Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Articles 31,
44, 45 and 48 of the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the Application filed in the Registry of the Court on 28
December 1998, whereby the Republic of Guinea instituted proceedings against
the Democratic Republic of the Congo in respect of a dispute originating in
claims by the former of serious violations of international law by the
latter against the person of a Guinean national;
Whereas on 29 December 1998 a certified copy of the Application was
transmitted to the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
Whereas the Republic of Guinea has appointed as Agent His Excellency Mr.
Maby Moussa Soumah, Ambassador of Guinea to the Netherlands, and as
Deputy-Agent Maître Alpha Oumar Diallo, advocate at [p 1043] the Conakry
Bar; and whereas the Democratic Republic of the Congo has appointed as Agent
Maître Michel Lion, advocate at the Brussels Bar;
Whereas, at a meeting held by the President of the Court with the Agents of
the Parties on 8 September 1999, the Parties provisionally agreed to request
the Court to fix consecutive identical time-limits of nine months from the
date of the meeting for the filing of, respectively, a Memorial by the
Republic of Guinea and a subsequent Counter-Memorial by the Democratic
Republic of the Congo;
Whereas, by letter of 7 October 1999, the Agent of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo informed the Court that the proposed time-limits were
acceptable to the Congolese Government; whereas, by letter of 22 November
1999, the Agent of the Republic of Guinea expressed his Government's
agreement to have these time-limits extended from nine to 12 months; and
whereas, by letter of 23 November 1999, the Agent of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo indicated that this proposal was acceptable to the Congolese
Government;
Taking account of the agreement of the Parties,
Fixes the following time-limits for the filing of the written pleadings:
11 September 2000 for the Memorial of the Republic of Guinea;
11 September 2001 for the Counter-Memorial of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo; 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 twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and ninety-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 Guinea and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, respectively.
(Signed) Stephen M. Schwebel,
President.
(Signed) Eduardo Valencia-Ospina,
Registrar. |
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