Aerial Incident of 3 July 1988 (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) - Discontinuance

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No. 96/6
23 February 1996

Case concerning the Aerial Incident of3 Jub: 1988
(]slamic Republic of Iran v. UnitedStatesofAmerica)

Discontinuance

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

The above case in which proceedings were instituted by Iran on 17 May 1989 and in which
the United States of America, within the extended time-limit for the deposit of its
Counter-Memorial, filed preliminary objections to the jurisdiction of the Court, has corne to an end.

By a letter of 8 August 1994 the Agents of the two Parties jointly infonned the Court that
their Govemments had "entered into negotiations that mead to afu11and final settlem ent of [the]

case" and requested the Court "[to postpone] sine die the opening of the oral proceedings" on the
preliminary objections, for which it had fixed the date of 12 September 1994.

By a letter dated 22 Fruary 1996, fled in the Reg istry on the same day, the Agents of the
two Parties jointly notified the Court that their Govemmenhad agreed to discontinue the case
because they had entered into

"an agreement in full and final sett.lement of ail disputesdifferences, claims,
counterclaims and matters directly or indirectly raised by or capable of arising out of,
or directly or indirectly related to or connected with, this case".

In consequence, the President of the Court, also on 22 February 1996, made an Order
recording the discontinuance of the proceedings and directing the removal of the case from the
Court's list.