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The President of the International Court of Justice,
having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court,
having regard to Article 37 of the Rules of Court;
Having regard to the Order of December 12th, 1957, in the case concerning
Sovereignty over certain Frontier Land between the Kingdom of Belgium and
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, whereby February 27th, 1958, was fixed as
the time-limit for the filing of the Memorial of the Government of the
Kingdom of Belgium, May 29th, 1958, as the time-limit for the filing of the
Counter-Memorial of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and
the subsequent procedure was reserved for further decision;
Whereas the Memorial of the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium was filed
within the time-limit so fixed;
Whereas by a letter dated May 16th, 1958, the Agent for the Government of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands requested that the time-limit for the filing
of the Counter-Memorial of his Government be extended to June 29th, 1958;
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Whereas by a letter dated May 21st, 1958, received in the Registry on May
27th, the Agent for the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium, to whom a copy
of the request for an
extension had been transmitted on May 17th, declared that his Government had
no objection to this request;
Postpones to June 30th, 1958, the time-limit for the filing of the
Counter-Memorial of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the
subsequent procedure remaining reserved for further decision.
Done in French and in English, the French text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine
hundred and fifty-eight, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of the
Kingdom of Belgium and to the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
respectively.
(Signed) Helge Klaestad,
President.
(Signed) Garnier-Coignet,
Deputy-Registrar. |
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