Application for Revision of the Judgment of 23 May 2008 in the Case concerning Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) (Malaysia v. Singapore)

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Press Release
Unofficial
No. 2018/21
1 June 2018
Application for Revision of the Judgment of 23 May 2008 in the Case concerning Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) (Malaysia v. Singapore) Case removed from the Court’s List
THE HAGUE, 1 June 2018. The case brought by Malaysia against Singapore before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by an Application, filed on 2 February 2017, for revision of the Judgment delivered by the Court on 23 May 2008 in the case concerning the Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) was removed from the Court’s List on 29 May 2018.
In a letter dated 28 May 2018, the Co-Agent of Malaysia notified the Court that the Parties had agreed to discontinue the proceedings in the aforementioned case. A copy of that letter was communicated to the Agent of Singapore who, by a letter dated 29 May 2018, confirmed his Government’s agreement to the discontinuance of the proceedings.
Consequently, on 29 May 2018, the Court made an Order recording the discontinuance, following the agreement of the Parties, of the proceedings instituted on 2 February 2017 by Malaysia against Singapore, and directing the removal of the case from the Court’s List.
The public hearings in the case concerning Application for Revision of the Judgment of 23 May 2008 in the Case concerning Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore) (Malaysia v. Singapore), previously scheduled to be held from Monday 11 to Monday 18 June 2018, have thus been cancelled.
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The full text of the Order will be made available shortly on the Court’s website in the documentation for the case, under the heading “Contentious cases”.
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