Applicability of Article VI, Section 22, of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - Hearings on 4 October 1989

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No. 89/18
6 September 1989

Applicability of Article VI, Section 22, of the Convention
on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations

Hearings on 4 October 1989

The following information is communicated to the Press by the
Registry of the International Court of Justice:

The Court will hold public sittings opening at 10 a.m. on Wednesday

4 October 1989 for the purpose of hearing oral statements or comments in
respect of the question submitted to it for advisory opinion, namely:

"the legal question of the applicability of Article VI,
Section 22, of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities
of the United Nations of 13 February 1946, in the case of
Mr. Dumitru Mazilu, as Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission

on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights".

As mentioned in Press Communiqué No. 8919 of 26 June 1989, the
President of the Court, by an order of 14 June, decided that the
United Nations and the States which are Parties to the Convention on

the Privileges and hunities of the United Nations were likely to
be able to furnish information on the question (see Article 66,
paragraph 2, of the Statute) and thus entitled to subit written or
oral statements to the*Court. Bearing in mind that the request was
expressed to be made "on a priority basis", he fixed the time-limits
in the case as follows:

- 31 July 1989 for the submission of written statements;

- 31 August 1989 for subsequent written comments on those
statements.

Written statements were filed by Canada, the Federal Republic

of Germany, Romania, the United States of America and the United
Nations; written comments were filed by the United States of
America .

These written statements and comments are not yet available to
the Press and public; under Article 106 of the Rules of Court, the

Court or the President may decide that they be made accessible to
the public on or after the openirig of the oral proceedings. For the history of the request for advisory opinion, and the
text of Article VI, Section 22, of the Convention, see Press
Communiqué No. 89/8 of 26 May 1989.

NOTE FOR THE PRESS

1. The public sitting will be held in the Great Hall of Justice
of the Peace Palace. Members of the Press will be entitled to
attend it on presentation of an admission card, which may be
obtained upon application. The tables reserved for them are
situated on the far left of the public entrance of the courtroom.

2. Photographs may be taken before the opening, during the
first five minutes of the sitting; and also for a few minutes
towards the end. Filming for cinema or television purposes is
however subject to special authorization.

3. In the Press Room, located on ground floor of the Peace
Palace (Room 5), the oral proceedings will be relayed through a
loudspeaker .

4. Members of the Press may use only the public telephones in
the Post Office in the basement of the Palace.

5. Mr. Witteveen, Secretary of the Court (telephone extension
233), or, in his absence, Mrs. El-Erian (telephone extension 2341,
will be available to deal with any requests for information by
members of the Press.