Separate Opinion of Judge Córdova

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE CORDOVA

1 am in disagreement with the majority of the Court both with
its reasoning as well as to its conclusion with regard to the First
Preliminary Objection of the United States. The United States
claims that,since the disputein this case arose prior to August 26th,
1946, the Court lacks jurisdiction to consider and adjudicate the
claim of the Swiss Government. 1 agree with such contention.

Dissenting Opinion of Vice-President Badawi (translation)

DISSENTING OPINION

OF VICE-PRESIDENT BADAWI
[Translation]
1am in agreement with the decisions of the Court on Objections 1,
3, 4 and 5, without, however, subscribing to certain aspects of the
reasoning for those decisions.
1 regret, however, that 1 cannot concur in the decisions relating

to Objections 2 and 6, which 1 consider well-founded. Each of these
Objections would be sufficient in itself to exclude the jurisdiction
of the Court to deal with the dispute relating to right of passage.

Individual Opinion of President McNair

INDIVIDUAL OPINION OF PRESIDENT McNAIR

1 concur in the conclusion reached in the Judgment of the Court
and wish to add some words of my own, as the reasons leading me
to this conclusion are not entirely the same as those contained in
that Judgment.

1 shall begin by making some remarks of a preliminary character.
Under the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Statute of
the Permanent Court of International Justice no State was under

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