INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (0)70 302 2323 Fax: +31 (0)70 364 9928
Website: www.icj-cij.org
Press Release
Unofficial
2012/29 No.
Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Niger)
Broadcasting of the hearings online
Testing of the Court’s new web streaming system
THE HAGUE, 4 October 2012. As announced in an earlier Press Release (No. 2012/25), the
public hearings in the case concerning the Frontie r Dispute (BurkinaFaso/Niger), which will be
held from Monday8 to Wednesday 17October20 12 at the Peace Palace in The Hague, will be
broadcast live and in full on the Court’s website (www.icj-cij.org, under the heading
“Multimedia”).
The Registry has recently changed the way in which it broadcasts the Court’s hearings
online, with a view to making its video streams available to new portable electronic devices.
Internet users (and journalists, in particula r) wishing to view these video streams are invited
to check whether their computer and/or electroni c tablet is compatible with the Court’s new
streaming system by testing their settings using the video available on the following web page:
If you are able to view this video (with sound, your configuration is compatible with the
Court’s new system.
If you are unable to access this video (and/or to hear its soundtrack), you should adjust your
firewall settings (the Open Ports settings for html pages, in particular). If the problem persists, you
are requested to contact your IT support service; the Court’s IT support service is not authorized to
assist individuals. However, any journalists who are having problems viewing this video, despite
adjusting their firewall settings, are invited contact the Information Department, preferably
before the start of the hearings.
Reminder
The times of the public hearings in theabove-mentioned case are indicated, in local time
(CET), in Press Release No.2012/25. The hearings will also be made available as recorded
webcasts (VOD, in Flash format) on the Court’s multim edia gallery and, shortly thereafter, will be - 2 -
uploaded to the United Nations multimedia site: h ttp://webtv.un.org/meetings-events. The history
of the proceedings can be found in Press Re lease No.2012/14 of 22March2012, which is
available on the Court’s website.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
It was established by the United Nations Char ter in June1945 and began its activities in
April1946. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). Of the six
principal organs of the United Nations, it is the only one not located in New York. The Court has a
twofold role: first, to settle, in accordance with in ternational law, legal disputes submitted to it by
States (its judgments have binding force and are without appeal for the parties concerned); and,
second, to give advisory opinions on legal questi ons referred to it by duly authorized United
Nations organs and agencies of the system. The Court is composed of 15judges elected for a
nine-year term by the General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations.
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secretariat, whose activities are both judicial and diplomatic, as well as administrative. The official
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court of a universal character with general jurisdiction.
The ICJ, a court open only to States for cont entious proceedings, and to certain organs and
institutions of the United Nations system for advisory proceedings, should not be confused with the
other ⎯ mostly criminal ⎯ judicial institutions based in The Hague and adjacent areas, such as the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yu goslavia (ICTY, an adhoc court created by the
Security Council), the International Criminal Court (ICC, the first permanent international criminal
court, established by treaty, which does not bel ong to the United Nations system), the Special
Tribunal for Lebanon (STL, an independent judicial body composed of Lebanese and international
judges, which is not a United Nations tribunal an d does not form part of the Lebanese judicial
system), or the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA, an independent institution which assists in
the establishment of arbitral tribunals and fac ilitates their work, in acco rdance with the Hague
Convention of 1899).
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Information Department:
Mr. Andrey Poskakukhin, First Secretary of the Court, Head of Department (+31 (0)70 302 2336)
Mr. Boris Heim, Information Officer (+31 (0)70 302 2337)
Ms Joanne Moore, Associate Information Officer (+31 (0)70 302 2394)
Ms Genoveva Madurga, Administrative Assistant (+31 (0)70 302 2396)
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