Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Mali) - Filing of Counter-Memorials by the Parties

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IN~ËRNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Peace Palace, 2517 KJ The Hague. Tel. 92 44 41. Cables: Intercourt. The Hague

Telex 32323
Communiqué

for ~rnmediaterelease

No. 861'4
3 April 1986

Frontier Dispute (Burkina ~aso/~ali)

Filing of Counter-Memorials by the Parties
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The following information is made available to the Press by the
Registry of the International Court of Justice:

On 2 April 1986 Burkina Faso and Mali each filed their

Counter-Memorials in the case.

Each had previously filed a Memorial on 3 October 1985.

Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) and Mali have submitted to a
specially formed Chaimber of the International Court of Justice a dispute
concerning the delimitation of a part of the land frontier between the
two States.

This Chamber was constituted by the Court by an Order dated
3 April 1985. It held its first private meeting and its first public
Sitting on 29 April 1985. It is composed as follows:

Judge Mohammed 'Bedjaoui, President; Judges Manfred Lachs and
José Marfa Ruda; Judges ad hoc François Luchaire and
Georges Michel Abi-Saab.

It will be recalled that, following border clashes between the armed
forces of Burkina Faso and Mali, the Chamber was requested by both
Parties to indicate provisional measures and unanirnously did so in an
Order made on 10 Janiiary 1986.

Neither the Memorials nor the Counter-Mernorials are for the time
being available to the public.