SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE AG0

[Translation]

1. 1 cannot begin these few brief comments which 1 am appending
to the Advisory Opinion rendered by the Court in the present case
without first stating that1 did not, in perusing Judgement No. 333 of

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE ODA

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Opening Remarks 1

A. Issue of legalimpediment 2-7
B. Ambivalent provenance of the drafting of the question in the
Committee on Applications 8-13

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE ELIAS

1agreewiththe majority AdvisoryOpinion inanswering inthe negative
the two questions put to the Court but 1wish to add some three or four

points of difference of emphasis and interpretation on a number of im-
portant issues raised in dealing with the answers.

DECLARATION OF JUDGE LACHS

The present case provides me with an occasion to return to the issue
which 1 raised in the declaration which, as President of this Court, 1
appended to the Advisory Opinion of 12July 1973on the Applicationfor

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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.

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE SCHWEBEL

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE ODA

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 OFJUDGE SETTE-CAMARA

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.