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Objectives of Provisional Measures

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In this chapter, the objectives of the provisional measures will be outlined, i.e. the protection of the parties’ rights pendente lite and the avoidance of an aggravation of the dispute. These objectives will be presented taking into account the jurisdiction of the PCIJ and the ICJ, in cases heard by these courts.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Case, ICJ Reports 1951, p. 93, Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case, ICJ Reports 1976, p. 9.

  2. 2.

    Denunciation of the Treaty of November 2nd, 1865, between China and Belgium, 1927 (Belgium v. China), PCIJ Series A No. 8, p. 6; Legal Status of the South-Eastern Territory of Greenland (Denmark v. Norway), 1932 PCIJ Series A/B No. 48, p. 284; English Agrarian Reform and the German Minority (Germany v. Poland), 1933 PCIJ Series A/B No. 58, p. 177.

  3. 3.

    Fisheries Jurisdiction (UK v. Iceland), Interim Protection, ICJ Reports 1972, p. 12; Fisheries Jurisdiction (FRG v. Iceland), Interim Protection, ICJ Reports 1972, pp. 30, 34.

  4. 4.

    Question relating to the Seizure and Detention of Certain Documents and Data (Timor-Lest v Australia), ICJ, Order of 3 March 2014, couple. 22.

  5. 5.

    Arbitral Award of 31 July 1989 (Guinea-Bissau v Senegal), Provisional Measures, ICJ Reports 1990, pp. 64, 70.

  6. 6.

    ICJ Reports 2007, Provisional Measures, pp. 3, 10; Sakai 2009, p. 231, p. 237.

  7. 7.

    Order of 23 January 2020 (Gambia v Myanmar), p. 18, Qatar v United Arab Emirates, Provisional Measures, Order of 23 July 2018, ICJ Reports 2018 (II), pp. 421–422. para 43.

  8. 8.

    Order of 23 January 2020, op. cit., p. 23, para 56.

  9. 9.

    Oellers-Frahm 2019; Thirlway 2013; Kolb 2013.

  10. 10.

    ICJ Reports 1973, p. 100 and p. 136.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., p.103.

  12. 12.

    Le livre blanc sur les essais nucléaires, Paris, Juin 1973.

  13. 13.

    ICJ Reports 1973, op.cit., p. 105.

  14. 14.

    Ibid., p. 106.

  15. 15.

    ICJ Reports 1972, pp. 13-17.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., p. 14.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., p. 16.

  18. 18.

    Ibid., p. 17.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., pp. 6–7.

  20. 20.

    Ibid., p. 8.

  21. 21.

    Ibid., p. 9.

  22. 22.

    Ibid., p. 11.

  23. 23.

    ICJ Reports 1979, pp. 7–21.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., p. 19.

  25. 25.

    ICJ Reports 1979, p. 19.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., p. 13.

  27. 27.

    PCIJ, Ser. A/B, No 79, 1939, p. 199.

  28. 28.

    ICJ Reports 1951, p. 93.

  29. 29.

    ICJ Reports 1972, pp. 11–17.

  30. 30.

    ICJ Reports 1973, p. 106.

  31. 31.

    ICJ Reports 1979, p. 21 , in the case concerning United States diplomatic and consular staff in Tehran (United States of America v. Iran).

  32. 32.

    Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali), Provisional Measures, Order of 10 January 1986, ICJ Report 3, at 9, para 18.

  33. 33.

    Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Provisional Measures, Order of 15 March 1996, [1996] ICJ Report 13, at 22, para 41; Sztucki 1997 p. 351. Merrills 1995, p. 123.

  34. 34.

    Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria (Cameroon v. Nigeria), Provisional Measures, Order of 15 March 1996, [1996] ICJ Report 13, p. 22, para 41.

  35. 35.

    Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (DRC v. Uganda), Provisional Measures, Order of 1 July 2000, [2000], ICJ Report 111, p. 128, para 44.

  36. 36.

    Oellers-Frahm 2019, p. 932.

  37. 37.

    ICJ Reports 1976, p. 16.

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Sałkiewicz-Munnerlyn, E. (2022). Objectives of Provisional Measures. In: Jurisprudence of the PCIJ and of the ICJ on Interim Measures of Protection. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-475-4_2

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