SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE AD HOC POCAR
1. I have voted with the majority in favour of the indication of all provisional measures
concerning the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD), as well as of the provisional measure asking both Parties to refrain from
any action which might aggravate or extend the dispute. I must however put on record that I would
have seen it necessary and appropriate to indicate provisional measures also with regard to the

DECLARATION OF JUDGE CRAWFORD
Plausibility of claimed rights under CERD  Banning of Mejlis  Role of Mejlis in light of modern history of the Crimean Tatars  Meaning of racial discrimination

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE BHANDARI

A. Introduction

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE C ANÇADO T RINDADE

Table of Contents

Paragraphs
I. Prolegomena ...........................................................................1.....................................

II. Conceptual Development of Provisional Measures of Protection ..........................3.....

D ECLARATION OF J UDGE T OMKA

Order on provisional measures  Scope of the first measure ordered  Insufficient
attention paid to reasons underlying decisions of the Supreme Court of Crimea and the Supreme

Court of the Russian Federation  Lack of urgency.

SEPARATE OPINION OF J UDGE O WADA

1. I have voted in favour of the Order in support of all points contained in its operative
paragraph 106. I also agree with the Court’s decision not to grant Ukraine’s request for provisional
measures concerning the International Conven tion for the Suppression of the Financing of