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Poland Accepts the Optional Clause of the ICJ Statute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Renata Szafarz
Renata Szafarz*
Affiliation:
Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
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On September 25, 1990, Poland deposited a declaration with the Secretary-General of the United Nations accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice in accordance with Article 36, paragraph 2 of the Statute of the Court. It is the first country from Central or Eastern Europe to have done so and the fifty-second state now maintaining an effective declaration.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 374 - 375
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1991

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1 In March 1989, the Polish Branch of the ILA elected a working group to draw up a draft declaration. Prof. K. Skubiszewski, Prof. K. Wolfke and this author as rapporteur were members of the working group. The result of its work was transmitted to the Section of International Law of the Legislative Council, an advisory organ of the Prime Minister.

2 The declaration was signed by Foreign Minister Skubiszewski and dated September 21, 1990.

3 See Res. 3, 48 Institut de Droit International, Annuaire 360 (1959 II). See also Briggs, Reservations to the Acceptance of Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, 93 Recueil des Cours 223, 279 (1958 I); R. P. Anand, Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice 257 (1961); and de Pauw, La Déclaration beige du 3 avril 1958 acceptant la juridiction obligatoire de la Cour internationale de Justice, 1966 Revue Belge de Droit International 94, 124.