Separate Opinion of Judge Shahabuddeen

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SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE SHAHABUDDEEN

1agreewiththe Court'sdecisionbut propose to recordsomeadditional
viewsdirected to matters of approach and perspective in respect of two
points.The firstrelatestothe stageatwhichthe dispute materialized. The
secondrelates to the questionwhether the dispute wasoneconcerningthe

interpretation or application ofthe Headquarters Agreement.

Dissenting Opinion of Judge Morozov

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE MOROZOV

1. 1voted against the Advisory Opinion because in substance it is an

attempt to involve the Court to a greater or less extent in the handling of
the serious political conflict existing in the MiddleEast between a number
of States, and particularly States Members of the World Health Organi-
zation, relating to the question of the transfer of its Regional Office
for the Eastern Mediterranean from the terntory of Egypt for political
reasons.

Separate Opinion of Judge El-Erian

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE EL-ERIAN

1concurin the Opinion of the Court. 1amin agreement with the analysis
of the facts of thecase,the statement of the applicableprinciples of law and
the precise and clear replies furnished by the Opinion.1am moved to write
a separate opinion, first to elaborate on a few preliminary questions, and
second to relate some of the points raised in the Opinion to the general law
of international organizations.

Separate Opinion of Judge Ago (translation)

SEPAIWTE OPINION OF JUDGE AG0

1.1subscribe to the Court's conclusions so far as the reply to be given to
the request for advisory opinion isconcerned. Those conclusions define the
mutual obligations iricumbent on the organization and host State in the
present case, in termis which largely correspond to what 1 myself have

found, though on tht: basis of grounds and reasoning which in part are
different.

Separate Opinion of Judge Oda

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE ODA

1concur with the Advisory Opinion of the Court in considering that the
transfer of theRegional Office from Alexandria to the new site, if such
transfer is inevitable, should be effected in an orderly manner with the
minimum of prejudice to the work of the Organization and the interest of
Egypt. However, differing as 1 do from the Advisory Opinion on some of
the legal issueshch it touches upon, 1feelbound to makeknown myown
individual views, as follows.

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