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.

Separate Opinion of Judge Lachs

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE LACHS

The Court, having analysed the different views on the subject, turns
away from the Agreement between the World Health Organization and
Egypt of 25 March 1951 and the applicability of a specific provision
(Section 37),or rather part ofit,in theevent of the WHO or Egypt wishing
to have the Regional Office now situated at Alexandria transferred from

Separate opinion of Judge De Castro

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE DE CASTRO

[Translation]

While 1fully concur in the operative part of the Advisory Opinion and
in the reasoning upon which it is based,1venture to exercise the faculty
conferred by Article 57 of the Statute in order to set forth in greater
detail the legal reasons which decided my vote.

A. Does the Request for an Opinion Relate to a Legal Question?

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