Lecture de l'arrêt sur les exceptions préliminaires – Procès-verbal de la séance publique tenue au Palais de la Paix, à La Haye, le 26 juin 1992, sous la présidence de sir Robert Jennings, président

COUK INTERNATIONALEDE JUSTICE

MEMOIRE SLAIDOIRIES ET DOCUMENTS

AFFAIRE DE CERTAINESTERRES
A PHOSPHATESÀ NAURU

(NAURU c.AUSTRALIE)

VOLUME III
Contre-mémoirede l'Australie; procédureorale;
réponsesaux questionsosrespoilda;docurnenr

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

PLEADINGS, ORAL ARGUMENTS, DOCUMENTS

CASE CONCERNING
CERTAIN PHOSPHATE LANDS IN NAURU

(NAURU vAUSTRALIA)

VOLUME 111
Counter-MernoriofAustralia ; Oral Argum;nts
Replies to Quest;Correspondencc; Docuinent NINTH PUBLIC SITTING (26V\ 92,3 p.m.)

Present. [See sitting o22 XI 91, Judge Bedjaoui'absent]

READING OF THEJUDGMENT ON PRECIMINARY OBJECTIONS

The Court has met today pursuant to Article 58of the Statute to deliver in
open court itsjudgment on the preliminaryobjections raisedby the Government
of the Commonwealth of Australia in the case concerning Cerlain Phosphare
Lands inNauru (Nauru v.Australiu), bmught before the Court on 19May 1989
by an Applicat~onof the Government of the Republic of Nauru.
Judge Bedjaoui, who took part in the hearings and deliberation on the objec-
tions, and participated in the vote and in the Judgment of the Court, is unfortu-
nately unableto be present at today'ssitting,
Following the usual practice,1 shalI not read the opening paragraphs of the
Judgment which set out the procedural history of the case and the submissions

of the Parties. 1 shall also summarize some passages of the Judgrnent. The
authoritative text of the 3udgrneisthe French version,bur 1shall now read the
EngIishtext of the Judgment. I
[The President reads paragraphs 8 to 71 of the Judgmenrl.]

1 shall now cal1 upon the Registrar to read the operative provisionsof the
Judgment in the French authoritative version.

[The Registrar reads the operativeclause in Frenc2.]
Thank you. 1 have to add that Judge Shaliabuddeen appeiids a separate
opinion to the Judgment. I myself,the Vice-President,JudgesAgo and Schwebel
append dissenting opinions to the Judgment. I
Mirneographed copiesof the text of thc ~ud~rncntlareatpresent available.The
usuaE printedtext will be published in due course. The further procedures in this
case willbe determined by the Court in accordance ivitArucle74, paragraph 7,
of the Rules of Court after1 have consultcd the Agents of the Parties

There being no other business before the Court this afternoon, the Court is
now adjourned.

(~i~ned);Sir Robert JENNINGS,
President.

(Szgned) Eduardo VALENCIA-OSPINA,
Registrar.

' I CJ Reports1992,pp. 245-267
lbid, pp 268-269.