<s docid="FBIS4-57113" num="26"> It was precisely this erroneous U.S. policy that was condemned by the highest International Court of Justice at The Hague and the policy that U.S.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-57113" num="27"> President William Clinton is now trying to leave behind so we may begin the new century with a new type of relation based on the principle of mutual respect.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6787" num="6"> THE International Court of Justice in the Hague will consider today Bosnian accusations that Serbs have been carrying out a campaign of territorial expansion through 'ethnic cleansing' and genocide.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6787" num="7"> A similar application by the Bosnians four months ago resulted in a court order to stop the genocide.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6787" num="8"> Legal officials in The Hague say a decision on the case is unlikely for several days, not least because the court will simultaneously be considering similar accusations from Serbia of genocide carried out by Moslems.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6787" num="11"> Next month the United Nations general assembly is expected to name 11 judges who will sit on the UN war crimes tribunal on former Yugoslavia.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-8680" num="16"> The acting deputy prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Australian Graham Blewitt, said he hoped the 11 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague would start to examine the report by the end of the year.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-8680" num="29"> Earlier Friday, Bosnia-Herzegovina filed a legal brief Friday with the ICJ detailing human rights violations and war crimes against Bosnians by the rump Yugoslavia.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-8680" num="30"> The ICJ has twice called on both parties to respect the UN convention, and asked each side to submit a detailed brief on the alleged crimes.</s>

<s docid="FT932-11125" num="7"> AN INTERNATIONAL tribunal to judge war crimes committed since 1991 in former Yugoslavia should be set up under the mandatory enforcement procedures of the UN Security Council, Mr Boutros Boutros Ghali, the secretary general, proposed yesterday.</s>

<s docid="FT932-11125" num="17"> Among the offences that should be tried are genocide and complicity in genocide - a clear reference to the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia which has shocked the world and helped to fuel demands for UN military measures.</s>

<s docid="FT932-11125" num="18"> Charges of murder, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape, political, racial and religious persecution as well as 'other inhumane acts' should be dealt with by the court, the Secretary General proposed.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-31817" num="101"> One serious issue to which Slovak diplomacy has been forced to pay increased attention from the first days of the Slovak Republic's independence, and to which it must still pay increased attention, are the problems concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros system of hydroelectric power projects.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-31817" num="102"> The two sides have agreed to submit the dispute to the International Court of Justice, the United Nations' supreme judicial body.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-66627" num="63"> Tunisia selected him as the attorney representing it before the International Court of Justice in the al-Jurf [continental shelf] issue with Libya.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-66627" num="64"> He was also an associate magistrate in the International Court of Justice in the case of the border dispute between Mali and Burkina.</s>

<s docid="FT933-3047" num="7"> THE United Nations last night elected eight judges for the international war crimes tribunal that will try those accused of murders and other atrocities in former Yugoslavia since 1991, writes Michael Littlejohns in New York.</s>

<s docid="FT933-3047" num="11"> The court, the first to deal with war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals after the second world war, will not impose the death penalty.</s>

<s docid="FT934-7958" num="18"> A Yugoslav war crimes tribunal was yesterday officially inaugurated, to attempt to prosecute perpetrators of murder, rape and enforced expulsions in Europe's bloodiest conflict since the second world war, writes Ron Van de Krol in The Hague.</s>

<s docid="FT934-7958" num="19"> The 11 judges of the international tribunal were sworn in at the International Court of Justice for an initial period of four years.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-55035" num="13"> BFN [Text] Hungary will also ask the International Court in The Hague to conclude that Slovakia is not the "inheritor" of the CSFR-Hungarian agreement on the construction of the Bos power station, an agreement signed in 1977.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6970" num="6"> THE International Court of Justice in the Hague will consider today Bosnian accusations that Serbs have been carrying out a campaign of territorial expansion through 'ethnic cleansing' and genocide.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6970" num="7"> A similar application by the Bosnians four months ago resulted in a court order to stop the genocide.</s>

<s docid="FT933-6970" num="8"> Legal officials in The Hague say a decision on the case is unlikely for several days, not least because the court will simultaneously be considering similar accusations from Serbia of genocide carried out by Moslems.</s>

<s docid="FT944-10888" num="10"> If extradited, Mr Tadic is likely to stand trial early next year in what would be the first international war crimes trial to take place since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials began in 1945.</s>

<s docid="FT944-10888" num="11"> The case against Mr Tadic underlines the tribunal's dependence on the co-operation of national governments and its inability to apprehend war criminals while fighting continues in the territory of former Yugoslavia.</s>

<s docid="FT944-11186" num="7"> An international war crimes tribunal covering the former Yugoslavia formally opens in The Hague today with a request for the extradiction from Germany of a Bosnian Serb alleged to have killed three Moslem prisoners.</s>

<s docid="FT944-11186" num="10"> The extradiction is important to the tribunal - the first international war crimes court since the Nuremberg trials after the second world war - because it has no power to try suspects in absentia.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-23195" num="14"> BFN [Excerpt] Tripoli, 31 May -- A ceremony carrying out a ruling on the Aouzou Strip by the International Court of Justice was held yesterday, following an agreement signed in Surt on 4 April 1944 between the Great Jamahiriyah and Chad.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-23195" num="18"> It states that the International Court of Justice issued its ruling on the regional dispute between the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah and the Republic of Chad on 4 February, 1994, and that in the realization that the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah and the Republic of Chad signed an agreement on 4 April 1994 on ways to implement the International's Court of Justice ruling, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah and the Republic of Chad declare that the withdrawal of the Libyan administration and Libyan forces from the village of Aouzou is to begin on this day, 30 May 1944, in a manner acceptable to both sides and is to be made under the supervision of a UN observers' team.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-25721" num="15"> This message pertained to the International Court of Justice at the Hague's verdict on the Aozou Strip.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-25721" num="20"> However, it can be easily imagined that this message had something to do with the decision of the International Court of Justice which confirmed the demarcation of our border with Libya and consequently ruled that the Aozou Strip belongs to our country.</s>

<s docid="LA070389-0011" num="30"> Several weeks ago, Iran had the gall to sue in the World Court.</s>

<s docid="LA070389-0011" num="31"> The Tehran regime wants the United States declared an outlaw and held liable for compensating the Iranian government directly.</s>

<s docid="LA070389-0011" num="33"> They refused to appear in the World Court 10 years ago when Washington sought the release of American hostages in Tehran.</s>

<s docid="LA070389-0011" num="42"> Ever since the Reagan Administration walked out of the Hague to protest Nicaragua's claim of illegality in U.S. aid to the Contras, the State Department has opposed submitting to the World Court any case that involves the use of military force.</s>

<s docid="LA070389-0011" num="43"> The last thing Bush wants is for the World Court to muck around again in the rules governing warfare, rendering an adverse decision that would further hamper the flexible use of U.S. military might overseas.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-327" num="15"> Their discussions centered on the application of the verdict of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which was handed down a month ago.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-327" num="16"> For Chad, the meeting is to examine with the Libyan delegation how the Chadian administration could take back the Aouzou Strip or fix the date for the withdrawal of Libyan forces from the Chadian territory.</s>

<s docid="FT921-714" num="7"> LIBYA WENT to the International Court of Justice yesterday seeking an emergency injunction to restrain the US and Britain from using force or imposing sanctions in their campaign to get Tripoli to surrender two Libyans alleged to have been involved in the Lockerbie bombing.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-28253" num="16"> [Text] Tokyo, June 9 KYODO -- The request of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for views on the legality of the use of nuclear weapons has driven Japan, the only nation to have suffered atomic bombings, into a difficult corner.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-28253" num="31"> The Japanese Government received a request from the ICJ, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, last September to submit by June 10 a written statement on whether it thinks the use of nuclear arms is illegal.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-28253" num="32"> The ICJ made the request to all U.N. member countries after the World Health Organization (WHO) asked the court in May 1993 to offer an "advisory opinion" on whether the use of nuclear arms violates international law from the standpoint of its impact on health and the environment.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-39264" num="18"> We have not heard any very clear reaction about any threat from Libya with regard to the decisions of the International Court of Justice.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-39264" num="19"> What is certain is that Libya agreed by common consent, as we did, to sign the Algiers framework agreement of 31 August 1989, and we also submitted the case by common consent to the International Court of Justice.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-7965" num="16"> [Text] Belgrade, April 7 (TANJUG) -- The North Atlantic Council ignores the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (F.R.Y).</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-7965" num="17"> plea to the International Court of Justice in The Hague against all NATO member-countries for resorting to ultimatum and threatening to use force in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina.</s>

<s docid="LA102289-0091" num="15"> At a pretrial hearing, a battery of Miami, Washington and New York lawyers appeared and asserted that Noriega had been kidnaped in violation of Panamian sovereignty.</s>

<s docid="LA102289-0091" num="16"> The U.S. attorney presented a Justice Department opinion that jurisdiction of foreign states could be overridden to apprehend violators of American law.</s>

<s docid="LA102289-0091" num="17"> The Panamanian government charged a violation of international law, and a famous Harvard Law School professor volunteered to argue the case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.</s>

<s docid="FBIS3-31751" num="35"> The decidedly negative interpretation of the construction of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project was successfully vanquished, however, and depoliticized by submitting the conflict for decision by the International Court of Justice at The Hague.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-28351" num="14"> BFN [Text] A "statement on the use of nuclear arms," which the government will soon submit to the International Court of Justice, is of the opinion that "the use of nuclear arms is not necessarily a violation of international law".</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-28351" num="16"> Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) asked the International Court of Justice about whether "the use of nuclear weapons is illegal or not under the international law".</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-54588" num="14"> BFN [Text] The Hague, May 2 (CTK) -- Slovakia and Hungary today officially submitted their dispute over the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric works to the International Court of Justice.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-54588" num="15"> Slovakia accuses Hungary of not honoring the commitments it took on in the Czechoslovak-Hungarian agreement concluded in September 1977.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-54588" num="16"> Budapest blames Bratislava for undertaking unilateral steps, causing damage through restricting the flow in the Danube's original bed and negatively affecting the environment, The court is also to evaluate whether or not the 1977 agreement is valid.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-27841" num="14"> BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 6 KYODO -- Japan will tell the International Court of Justice that it does not regard the use of nuclear weapons as a violation of international law, officials said Monday.</s>

<s docid="FBIS4-27841" num="18"> The court was asked in May by the World Health Organization (WHO) to decide whether or not staging a nuclear warfare violates international law.</s>

