Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine Area (Canada/United States of America) - Time-Limit Fixed for the Filing of Counter-Memorials

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No, 82/15
11 November 1982

Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the
Gulf of Maine Area
(CanadaiUnited States of America -)

Time-Limit Fixed for the Filine of Counter-Memorials

The following information is made available to the press by the
Registry of the International Court of Justice:

By an Order of 5 November 1982, the time-limit for the filing of
Counter-Memorials by Canada and the United States has been fixed at
28 June 1983.

Canada and the United States have submitted to a specially formed
Chamber of the International Court of Justice a dispute over the boundary
separating the fishery zones and continental shelves of the two countries
off the Atlantic Coast in the Gulf of Maine area. The proceedings were
instituted on 25 November.1981 by the filing of a Special Agreement.

The Chamber was constituted by an Order of the Court on
20 January 1982. It is composed as follows: Judge Ago, President of

the Charnber; Judges Gros, Mosler and Schwebel; Judge ad hoc Cohen.
This was the first time in the history of the Court that the parties
to a dispute had made use of the possibilities, embodied in the
Statute and Rules of the Court, of sending their case to a special
chamber instead of to the full Court.

The first pleadings (the Memorials) were filed on 27 September 1982,
within the time-limit as fixed by an Order of 1 February after

consultation with the Parties and extended at the request of one of them,
and without objection on the part of the other, by an Order of
28 July 1982.

The time-limit for the filing of the second pleadings (the
Counter-Memorials) has now, by an Order of 5 November 1982, been fixed,
after consultation with the Parties, at 28 June 1983. No decision has
yet been taken as to the subsequent procedure.