Dissenting Opinion of Judge Oda

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE ODA

1. To my great regret 1 find myself unable to concur in the Court's
Judgment. In the Maltese intervention proceedings, 1 stated that :

"the Court's reasoning [forrejectingthe Maltese Application] places
toorestrictivea construction upon thefirst paragraph of Article62.1
regret that theinstitution ofintervention isaffordedso narrow afocus
on essentially the first occasion of its application." (I.C.J. Reports
1981, p. 23, para. 1.)
1also stated

Separate Opinion of Judge Morozov

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE MOROZOV

1. 1voted for the operative part of the Judgment in which the Court

"finds that the Application of the Italian Republic, filed in the Regis-
try of theCourt on 24October 1983,forpermissiontointervene under
Article 62 of the Statute of the Court, cannot be granted".
2. This is the second time in the course of thejudicial activity of the

Separate opinion of Judge Bastid (translation)

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE BASTID

[Translation]

1. Approval must be given to the finding of inadmissibility reached in
respect of the request submitted by the Republic of Tunisia, under Article
61of the Statute of the Court,for the revisionof theJudgment givenby the
Court on 24 February 1982.
This decision is based upon lengthy considerations (paras. 28 ff.). Fur-
thermore, as regards the subsidiary request for interpretation, the Court
has at certain points referred back to the reasoning concerning revision

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