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This chapter will present the issue of urgency as one of the conditions that must exist for the Court to order provisional measures. If there is no urgency, there is no indication of interim measures.
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ICJ Reports 1957, p. 112.
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ICJ Reports 1973, p. 329.
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Ibid., p. 330.
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ICJ Reports 1972, p. 16.
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ICJ Reports 1973, p. 104. See separate opinion of Judge Gros, ibid., pp. 120 and 155.
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Application for an order for interim measures of protection brought by Australia, Documents, vol. I, p. 57.
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ICJ Reports 1976, pp. 11–14.
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ICJ Reports 1979, p. 21.
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E.g. Nuclear Tests case, 1973, op. cit., p. 99–106 and in Fisheries Jurisdiction, 1972, op.cit, pp. 12–18.
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E.g. Interhandel, 1957, op. cit., p. 105–112 and Aegean Sea Continental Shelf, 1979, op. cit., pp. 3–14.
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Counter-Memorial of the US, 27 March 2000, para 57, www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/104/8554.pdf.
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Zyberi 2010, pp. 571–584.
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Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation), Provisional Measures, Order of 15 October 2008, ICJ Reports 2008, p. 392, para 129. See, for example, Passage through the Great Belt (Finland v. Denmark), Provisional Measures, Order of 29 July 1991, ICJ Reports 1991, p. 17, para 23; Certain Criminal Proceedings in France (Republic of the Congo v. France), Provisional Measure, Order of 17 June 2003, ICJ Reports 2003, p. 107, para 22; Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay), Provisional Measures, Order of 23 January 2007, ICJ Reports 2007 (I).
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Zyberi G (2010) Provisional Measures of the International Court of Justice in Armed Conflict Situations, Leiden Journal of International Law 23: 571–584
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Sałkiewicz-Munnerlyn, E. (2022). Urgency. 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_4
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