Separate opinion of Judge Schwebel

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE SCHWEBEL

1am in substantial but not full agreement with the Court's Judgment.
There is no need to specify the several holdings of the Court with which
1agree. The questions whose treatment by the Court is in my view ques-
tionable arethe following.

1. SHOULD THE LAW OF MARITIM DEELIMITATIO BNEREVISED TO
INTRODUC END APPLY DISTRIBUTIV JUESTICE?

Declaration of Judge Aguilar Mawdsley

DECLARATION OF JUDGE AGUILAR MAWDSLEY

1have voted for the Judgment because 1 concur with its reasoning.
However, 1am not persuadëd that the delimitation line as drawn by the
Court orovidesforaneauitableresult.Inmvooinion. the dimerenceinthe
GngthSofthe coasts of~reenland and ~an~a~en issuch that Greenland
(Denmark) should have receiveda largerproportion ofthe disputed area.
Given the importance attached to this factor in the Judgment, it would
have beenlogicalat leastto makean equal distribution ofzones I,3.and

Declaration of Judge Evensen

DECLARATION OF JUDGE EVENSEN

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea signed at
Montego Bay,Jamaica, on 10December 1982endeavoun to formulate in
its text of 320Articles,9Annexes and a Final Actthe prevailing(to some
extent emerging) principles of the modem law of the sea. Article 308,
paragraph 1,of the Convention provides:

"ThisConvention shallenterinto force 12months afterthe date of
deposit ofthe sixtiethinstrument of ratification or accession."

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