Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - Public hearings of 14 April 1951

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The follmling informati ~om the Registry of the

International Court of Justice h&s beEn communicated ta the Press.

The International Court of Justice held two public sittings

to-day, April 14th, 1951, in the case concerning the Reservati ~n tse

Convention on Genocide.

'Br. G.G. Fitzmaurice, on behalf of the United Kingdom

Government concluded the statement vmich Sir Hartley Shawcross began

yesterday, and then· Prof ess')Rousseau made a sta t ement~n behalf of th e

French Govemment.

These sittings ~dll be the last ones in the oral proceedings

in the present advisory case.

The Hague, 14th April, 1951•

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