Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) - Postponement of oral proceedings on compensation

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Members of the Court 29-6-90 (16.45) for imrnediate release
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No. 90112
29 June 1990

Militar and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua

- Nicaragua v. United States of Arnerica)

Postponement of oral proceedings on compensation

The following information is communicated to the Press by the Registry
of the International Court of Justice:

At a meeting on 22 June 1990 called by the President of the Court to
ascertain the views of Nicaragua and the United States of America on the
date for opening of the oral proceedings on compensation in this case, the
Agent of Nicaragua iriformed the President of the position of his
Government, already set out in a letter from the Agent to the Registrar of
the Court dated 20 Jiine 1990. The United States, which has chosen not to
appear in this case since the Court's 1984 Judgment on jurisdiction, was
not represented at the meeting.

The Agent of Nicaragua indicated that the new Government of Nicaragua
is carefully studying the different matters it has pending before the
Court; that the instant case is very complex and that, added to the many
difficult tasks facirig the Government, these are special circumstances that
would make it extremely inconvenient for it to take a decision on what
procedure to follow in this case during the coming months.

The President, in the light of the position of the Government of
Nicaragua, stated that he would inform the Court of that position and would
in the meantime take no action tofix a date for hearings.