Corfu Channel (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Albania) - The naval experts will leave on 23 January 1949

Commqiiqué Do. 49/2.
Unofficial.

The fbllowing information from the Registry of thé International

Court of Justice has .beencomunicated to the,Fress :

The naval experts in the Corfu Channel casc, who have becn in-

structadby the Court to visit the Adriatic, will leave on Smday,

January 23rd.

-4sthe Court wishes ta &tain the qertsF rapod wiihout dclay,

they will make the journky by air, A K.L.M. acroplaneIlas bccn

chartered for the purpose. Thuy will leavc Schiphol Iierodromci on the

morning of the 23rd, and will thus be Sn a position to bagin their

Thcy will thon go
cncplry a5 Sibenik (~u~oslavia) on bionday, 24th.

to Tirana and Saranda (Albanta), to continue their cL?quivj in the

Corfu Chani:el and on thc territory adjaccnt tbereto. It is hçped

thzt they may bc back in the l\!ethcrlandç after cight dags.

The Court's naval experts who will participate in the jounley

I
arc: Comodorc S. A. Forsht.11, of thc %yal Swedish Gnvy, and

Lieutenant Comnder S. J, M. Elfrcrick of the Royal i\Ietherknds pia~~.

Commodore J, Bull, of the Fbyal Norwegian E.laqr,also dçsigna6i.d kj

the Court as nzval expert, vnll remlin at The Hague,

N. krnier-Coignet, Dcputy-Registrnr of the Court will, 2s the

rcprssentativ of the Court, bz with the experts whcn thcy 2re engagcd

In the dischargeof their dutics. On the Court1 s behdf, hc will bc

responsible for relations with the author5tics of States to whose

territorics the experts are grococding or thmugh tvh-ich they id1 pass.

The United Kingdom nrid Albanin, the two partios,liave ezch

appointcd a naval officcr ko accompany the Mission:

The United Kirigdom: Commander E, R. D, SrTorder, nnd

Albnnia:Cnptain Barnimir Ivanov Omwov.

The Hcgu~, January 21st, 1949,