¹ See Keith Highet, The Peace Palace Heats Up: The World Court in Business Again?, 85 AJIL 646 (1991).

² Letter to the Editor, 86 AJIL 542 (1992).

³ These states are, in alphabetical order: Australia (2), Bahrain, Chad, Denmark (2), El Salvador, Finland, Guinea-Bissau (2), Honduras (2), Iran (2), Libya (3), Nauru, Nicaragua (3), Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Senegal (2), the United Kingdom and the United States (4). The Court has not been asked to exercise its advisory jurisdiction under Article 65 of its Statute and Article 96 of the UN Charter since 1989, when it ruled on Applicability of Article VI, Section 22, of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 1989 ICJ Rep. 177 (Advisory Opinion of Dec. 15). However, an agenda item, No. 151, is pending before the UN General Assembly concerning a request for an advisory opinion by 21 Ibero-American states in connection with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 112 S.Ct. 2188 (1992). On November 25, 1992, the General Assembly decided to continue its consideration of this item and to include it in the provisional agenda of its forthcoming forty-eighth session. See UN Doc. A/47/713 (1992).

⁴ Since 1946, the ICJ (or one of its chambers) has handed down judgments (merits) in 38 cases, and 20 advisory opinions, for a total of about nine thousand pages in the ICJ Reports.

⁵ Application of March 12, 1991.

⁶ Application of May 17, 1991, followed by a request from Finland for the indication of provisional measures on May 23.

⁷ Application of July 8, 1991.

⁸ The five-member Chamber was constituted by the Court, upon the request of the parties, by the Order of May 8, 1987, 1987 ICJ Rep. 10.

⁹ 1991 ICJ Rep. 3.

¹⁰ Id. at 6.

¹¹ Id. at 12 (Provisional Measures).

¹² Id. at 47.

¹³ Id. at 9.

¹⁴ Id. at 41.

¹⁵ Id. at 44.

¹⁶ Id. at 50.

¹⁷ Id. at 187.

¹⁸ Id. at 53.

¹⁹ Both Applications were filed on March 3, 1992.

²⁰ Application filed on November 2, 1992.

²¹ See ICJ Rules of Court, Art. 38, para. 5, reprinted in 73 AJIL 748, 761 (1979). On January 1, 1993, the state of Czechoslovakia was dissolved and two new states, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, emerged, which became the 179th and 180th member states of the United Nations.

²² This was the first time in its history that the Court had directed that there be a second round of written pleadings, consisting of a Reply and a Rejoinder, in initial proceedings addressed to the jurisdiction of the Court to entertain the dispute and the admissibility of the Application. See id., Art. 45, para. 2.

²³ See ICJ Statute, Art. 34, and Rules of Court, supra note 21, Art. 69, para. 3.

²⁴ 1992 ICJ Rep. 219.

²⁵ Id. at 228.

²⁶ Id. at 231 (Libya v. UK), 234 (Libya v. U.S.).

²⁷ Id. at 237.

²⁸ Id. at 222.

²⁹ Id. at 3 (Libya v. UK), 114 (Libya v. U.S.).

³⁰ Id. at 225.

³¹ Id. at 345.

³² Id. at 763.

³³ Id. at 348.

³⁴ Id. at 240. For a summary of the Judgment, see the case note by Antony Anghie, 87 AJIL 282 (1993).

³⁵ 1992 ICJ Rep. 351 (including opinions).