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Copyright: UN Photo/ICJ-CIJ/ANP-in-Opdracht/ Frank van Beek. Courtesy of the ICJ. All rights reserved.
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Members of the Delegation of Chile at the opening of the ICJ hearings in the case concerning the Maritime Dispute (Peru v. Chile). This session took place, exceptionally, in the auditorium of The Hague Academy of International Law. The ICJ's role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States (its Judgments are final and binding) and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized UN organs and agencies.