Separate opinion of Judge Owada

S EPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE O WADA

1. I have voted in favour of the conclusions reached by the Court in the operative part
(dispositif) of the present Judgment, as I have no disagreement with these conclusions as such. It is
my view, however, that certain specific aspects of the reasoning (ratio decidendi) of the Judgment
that have led the Court to these conclusions have not been developed with sufficient clarity in the
reasoning part (motifs) of the Judgment. For this reason, I wish to attach this opinion of mine, with

Declaration of Vice-President Yusuf

D ECLARATION OF VICE -PRESIDENT Y USUF

Territorial integrity  Territorial sovereignty  Parties’ claims of violation of territorial
integrity not adequately addressed  Inviolability of boundaries as a basic element of territorial
integrity  Inviolability not conditional on the use or threat of force  Territorial integrity

breached by incursions  Lack of emphasis on territorial integrity inconsistent with Court’s case
law.

Separate opinion of Judge Kooijmans

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE KOOIJMANS

Whether there is a dispute between the Parties as to the continuation of the
maritime boundary beyondpoint G - No speciJicclaim raised by Applicant at
date of filing of Application which waspositively opposed by Respondent -
Seventh preliminary objectionshould have beenpartially upheld - Eighth pre-
liminary objection consequently withoutobject - Judicial propriety, unilateral
application and rights and interests of third States in cases of delimitation

maritime boundary.

Separate opinion of Judge Higgins

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE HIGGINS

Discretionary power of the Court concerningsequence in which it settles
issues before i- Sufficiently precise characterof a disput- Whether exist-
ence of a dispute under Article 38 of the Statute - Court'spowers proprio
motu regarding objectionstojurisdiction.

As is recalled in the first paragraph of the Court's Judgment, Cam-
eroon on 29 March 1994instituted proceedings against Nigeria in respect

Separate opinion of Judge Vereshchetin

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE VERESHCHETIN

Argument of Cameroon that a dispute exists concerning the whole of the
boundaryfrom the tripoint in Lake Chad to the sea - Objection of Nigeria as
to the existence of such a disput- Non-exclusively preliminary characterof
this objection.

1voted with the majority of the judges on al1the points of the opera-
tive part of the Judgment, except point 1 (e). 1 am unable to vote "in
favour" of that part of the Judgment because of my beliefthat the finding

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