Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021
International Court of Justice — Jurisdiction — Finality of judgments — Revision — Statute of the International Court of Justice, Article 61 — Requirement of newly discovered facts — Whether facts must have existed at the time of the judgment in respect of which revision sought — Subsequent facts — Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (“FRY”) — 1996 Judgment upholding jurisdiction under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948 — Subsequent admission of FRY as Member State of the United Nations — Whether implying FRY was not party to Statute or Genocide Convention at time of 1996 Judgment — Whether new facts within the meaning of Article 61
State succession — Succession and continuity of States — Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia — Whether FRY the continuation of the former Yugoslavia — Membership of the United Nations — Participation in treaties — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
International Organizations — United Nations — Membership — Yugoslavia — Status of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2000 — Whether Member of the United Nations — Whether party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice — Whether bound by Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948