ICJ TO GIVE DECISION TODAY ON GERMANY'S CASE AGAINST UNITED STATES CONCERNING TWO GERMAN NATIONALS CONVICTED OF MURDER IN ARIZONA
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ICJ TO GIVE DECISION TODAY ON GERMANY'S CASE AGAINST UNITED STATES CONCERNING TWO GERMAN NATIONALS CONVICTED OF MURDER IN ARIZONA
19990303 THE HAGUE, 3 March (ICJ) -- This evening at 7 p.m., the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will give its decision on the request for the indication of provisional measures made by Germany in the case concerning the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Germany v. United States of America).Vice-President Weeramantry, exercising the functions of the presidency in the case (the President being a national of the United States), will read the Court's Order at a public sitting.
Germany instituted proceedings against the United States before the Court in the evening of 2 March in a dispute concerning alleged violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963 with respect to the case of Karl and Walter LaGrand, German nationals convicted of murder in Arizona (United States). Karl LaGrand was executed on 24 February last. His brother Walter is due to be executed today.
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