Corfu Channel (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania) - Return of the mission of naval experts

Communiqu4No. 49/3
Unof Sicial

The following information f rom the Hegistry of the Intern~Lional Court

of Justice has been communicated to the Press:-

Themissionof naval experts, which had been instructed by Llie Coiid

to 'visit Sibenik (Yugoslavia) and Saranda (ALbania) to carrg out in-

vestigations and tests in conncction witli the Gorfu Channel Case, rr-e-i;urneà

to The Hagueyesterday, Febmary lst, 1949, The task of th'? expzrts W~S

greatly faeilitated by the helpful masures of the kgoslav and Albanian

Qoverhents, and by the eu-operation of the local authorities. The

experts, \ho wzre accompania dy one reprcsentative each of th^ two phrti~s

to tha disputc (United Kingdom and ~lbania) , roported tha't they had beon

able to see evùrything they required for the discharge of their mission,

Tha Deputÿ-Registrar ,ho, as the Court's reprcsontstive, wss

responsible for relations witb the authorities of the Stztes through xhose

terpitories the experts wuld pass, or to which they wcre proccedlng, al.50

acsoinpanicd the Wission.

The ?lission .tr:zvcll.ed
Eight days in al_l wcro occupied by the journcy.

tn a K.L.M. aeroplsuie, specially chnrtered for the occasion. Its cuptzin

was the well-known Kcthcrlands plLot M. K~ouwel, As a result,it wls

possible to Adhcre precisely to the pre-arrmged tbnc-t:%bble for dvgry siege

af th2 journcy.

As it has been staiied in somaPress telcgrms that shots iiIBLsfired

at the aaroplme , the Registry tzkes this op::ortunity of dcçlitrinc sucb

reporb to bs uttcrly unfounded.

The Hague, Februcry 2nd, 191+9.