Additional Documents filed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria after the Closure of Written Proceedings

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Anthony Edwards
Jean-Jacques Arnaldez Esq YourRcf
David Coupe
Deputy Registrar Timothy Daniel

International Court of Justice OurRcf TIID/DIL/102280/ca Christopher Comyn
David Kendall
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james Innes
2517 KJ 2 February 1998 HowJrJ Oakley
The Hague
Alan Perry
Netherlands Barbaraftalin

David Johnson
Peter Taylor

Andrew Sandcrs
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Dear Mr Amaldez Chrisrinerett
Sally Hine

Case concerning the Land and Maritime Boundary BetweenCameroon and Nigeria Susan Aslan
Dorothy Cory-Wright
(Cameroon -v- Nigeria
Clive D:tvies
Simonorke

1 write further to your recent telephone conversations of 19 and 27 January 1998 with David Tiplady
jJne Moorman
David Lerer.
Richard Hopley
Henry Clinton-Davis
1 enclose with this letter, and hereby lodge with the Registry of the Court, 50 copies of
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a further volume of documents which are supplemental to the documents annexed to the Alexander Carrer·Silk

Preliminary Objections of The Federal Republic of Nigeria. Lesley-Annes
Monica BIJke

Caroline Janzen
As explained over the telephone, these documents, none of which is speci:fically referred Ashwani Kochhar

to in the written Preliminary Objections dated December 1995, are being submitted in Richard~x
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order to present the Court with as complete a record as possible of the relevant
proceedings of the Lake Chad Basin Commission ("LCBC"), although the record is still

not absolutely complete. It is appreciated that these documents are being filed quite close

to the hearing of the Preliminary Objections scheduled for March 1998 but many of the
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documents have only been recent!y become available. Ali of the documents are part of the
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official record of the LCBC: as such they should be available to ail Member States of the

LCBC and none of them should be new to the Republic of Cameroon. Consultants

David frceman
We believe that the majority of the proceedings of the LCBC are available in both English Christopher Hancock

and French. We are happy to provide the Court with draft Translations of these M;lhirlilï

documents into French if that would assist the Court. However, we believe that the
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Republic of Cameroon or indeed the LCBC itself should be able to provide French texts · US Atrorncy

of most, if not ali, minutes. If that does not prove possible before the Hearing, we would

propose that we provide French translations of passages on which we rely at the hearing. The Parrnership i>

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Jean-Jacques Amaldez Esq
Deputy Registrai 2 February 1998

I should be obligeif you would kindly acknowledge safe receipt of the enclosed
documents.

As requested by you over the telephone, a further 75 copies of this volume of
Supplemental Documents will be supplied to the Court prior to the hearing in March.

Yours sincerely

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