[Reproduced from the text provided by the International Court of Justice.

[The Court issued a similar Order in the Nuclear Tests Case instituted against France by New Zealand. The language of that Order and of the declarations and dissenting opinions was virtually the same as in Australia v. France. Where the language differed, excerpts have been reproduced. These excerpts appear in brackets either opposite the corresponding paragraphs of the Order in Australia v. France or at the end of the corresponding dissenting opinions.

[A map showing the French Pacific Tests Center appears at pages 772 and 773. The map was reproduced from Annex I of the Australian application of May 9, 1973, instituting proceedings in the International Court of Justice against the French Republic.

[On July 21, 1973, France conducted a nuclear weapon test in the atmosphere over Mururoa. Protests followed and some of the notes were circulated as official U.N. General Assembly documents under the agenda item of the twenty-eighth session entitled “urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests”.]