Dissenting Opinion of Judge Read

DISSENTIXG OPINION OF JUDGE READ

1 regret that1 am unable to concur in the decision of the Court,
in this case, and that it has become necessary for me to indicate
the reasons which have prevented me from concurring with the
majority. As 1am of the opinion that the Court shouldreject al1the
Preliminary Objections, and deal with the merits, 1 must examine
al1aspects of the case, and, in doing this, shall consider the following
questions:

Separate Opinion of Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht

SEPARATE OPINION
OF JUDGE SIR HERSCH LAUTERPACHT

While 1 concur in the operative part of the Judgment inasmuch
as the Court has declared itself incompetent to decide on the
merits of the case submitted to it, much regret that 1 do not find
myself in agreement with the grounds of the Judgment. As the
issues involved are intimately connected with the nature of the
decisions of the Court in the matter of its competence, as me11as
with some basic questions of its obligatory jurisdiction, consider

Declaration by Judge Moreno Quintana (as appended immediately after the judgment)

Done in French and English, the French text being authoritative,
at the Peace Palace,The Hague, this sixth day of July, onethousand
nine hundred and fifty-seven, in three copies, one of which will be
placed in the archives of the Court and the others will be trans-
mitted to the Government of the French Republic and to the
Government of the Kingdom of Norway, respectively.

(Signed) GREENH. HACKWORTH.

President:

Dissenting Opinion of Judge Moreno Quintana (translation)

DISSENTING OPINIOK OF JCDGE MORES0 QUINTANA
[Translation]
To my great regret, 1 am unable to concur in this case in the
opinion of the majority of my colleagues of the Court, nor in the
decision which the Judgment gives, nor in the reasons on which
that Judgment is based. 1 base my own position on considerations
of fact and of law, which have led me to take a dissenting view.

These considerations are as follows.

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