View of the ICJ Bench during the reading, by President Peter Tomka, of the Judgment on the question of compensation in the case concerning Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republ

View of the ICJ Bench during the reading, by President Peter Tomka, of the Judgment on the question of compensation in the case concerning Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo). This session took place, exceptionally, in the Auditorium of the Hague Academy of International Law. The ICJ's role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States (its Judgments are final and binding) and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized UN organs and agencies.