Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America) - Fixing of time-limits

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No. 92/15
24 June 1992

Cases concerning Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971
Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie
(Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom)
(Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America)

Fixing of time-limits

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

In the above two cases the Court, taking into account that the
· time-limits set out below were agreed on by the Parties at a meeting held
on 5 June 1992 with the Vice-President of the Court, exercising the
function of the presidency in the two cases, has by Orders dated
19 June 1992 fixed the following time-limits for the written proceedings:

- 20 December 1993 for the Memorial of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;

- 20 June 1995 for the Counter-Memorials of the United Kingdom and the
United States of America respectively.

The subsequent procedure has been reserved for further decision.

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