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GA/L/3252
13/10/2004
Press Release
GA/L/3252

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

5th Meeting (PM)


 

STRICT OBSERVANCE OF HUMANITARIAN LAW, MEASURES TO PROTECT

 

DIPLOMATS URGED IN ASSEMBLY’S LEGAL COMMITTEE


As Status of New Protocols to Geneva Convention Is Discussed,

Delegates Stress Key Role of International Committee of Red Cross


(Issued on 14 October 2004.)

ICJ/616
(Reissued as received.)

THE HAGUE, 9 July (ICJ) -- The International Court of Justice (ICJ), principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has today rendered its Advisory Opinion in the case concerning the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (request for advisory opinion).

In its Opinion, the Court finds unanimously that it has jurisdiction to give the advisory opinion requested by the United Nations General Assembly and decides by 14 votes to 1 to comply with that request.