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COMMITTEE ON CLASSIFICATION OF COMMUNICATIONS AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE BASIC QUESTIONNAIRE Appointed at end of 24th session to serve until end of 25th session: Australia, United Arab Republic. Chairman: J. A. Forsythe (Australia). Re-appointed at end of 25th session to serve until Members: Australia, . end of 26th session: Australia, United Arab Re- public. THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

The Court consists of 15 Judges elected for nine-year PARTIES TO THE COURT S STATUTE terms by the General Assembly and the Security All members of the United Nations are ipso facto Council, voting independently. parties to the Statute of the International Court of The Judges of the Court serving in 1960, with the Justice. The following non-member states have also year their terms of office were due to end, were, in become parties to the Court's Statute: , order of precedence, as follows: San Marino, . Country of End of Judge Nationality Term STATES ACCEPTING COMPULSORY JURISDICTION Helge Klaestad, President 1961 OF THE COURT Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Declarations made by the following states accepting Khan, Vice-President Pakistan 1961 the Court's compulsory jurisdiction (or made under Jules Basdevant 1964 the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Green Hackworth 1961 Justice and deemed to be an acceptance of the juris- Bohdan Winiarski Poland 1967 diction of the International Court for the period for Abdel Hamid Badawi United Arab 1967 which they still had to run), were in force at the end Republic of 1960: Australia, , Cambodia, Canada, Enrique C. Armand-Ugon Uruguay 1961 China, , Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Feodor Ivanovich Kojevnikov USSR 1961 Salvador, Finland, France, Haiti, , India, Lucio M. Moreno Quintana Argentina 1964 , Japan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Roberto Cordova Mexico 1964 Mexico, , New Zealand, , Nor- V. K. Wellington Koo China 1967 way, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay,* Philippines, Por- Jean Spiropoulos 1967 tugal, Sudan, , Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Sir Percy Spender Australia 1967 Union of South Africa, United Arab Republic, United Ricardo J. Alfaro Panama 1964 Kingdom, United States, Uruguay. Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice* 1964 * On 27 May 1938, Paraguay sent the Secretary- * Elected on 16 November 1960 to fill the vacancy General of the the text of a decree caused by the death of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht who announcing the withdrawal of its declaration of ac- died on 8 May 1960. ceptance, which had been made unconditionally. The On 17 November 1960, the General Assembly and Secretary-General of the League circulated copies of the Security Council, voting independently, elected this communication to states parties to the Protocol Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero (), Philip C. of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court Jessup (United States), Vladimir M. Koretsky of International Justice and to members of the League (USSR), Gaetano Morelli (), and Kotaro Ta- of Nations. Express and formal reservations on the naka (Japan), each for nine years beginning 6 subject of this denunciation were received from February 1961, to fill the vacancies occurring on the number of states. expiration of the terms of office of Judges Hackworth, Klaestad, Armand-Ugon, Kojevnikov and Zafrulla ORGANS AUTHORIZED TO REQUEST ADVISORY Khan. OPINIONS FROM THE COURT Registrar: Julio Lopez Oliván (until 22 October Authorized by the United Nations Charter to request 1960); Jean Garnier-Coignet (from 23 October opinions on any legal questions: 1960). General Assembly, Security Council. Deputy-Registrar: Jean Garnier-Coignet (until 22 Authorized by the General Assembly in accordance October 1960); S. R. A. Aquarone (from 23 Oc- with the Charter to request opinions on legal ques- tober 1960). tions arising within the scope of their activities: Economic and Social Council; Trusteeship Council; CHAMBER OF SUMMARY PROCEDURE Interim Committee of the General Assembly; Inter- (as elected by the Court on 17 March 1960) national Atomic Energy Agency; International Members: Labour Organisation; Food and Agriculture Organ- President: Helge Klaestad. ization; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Vice-President: Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan. Cultural Organization; World Health Organization; Judges Jules Basdevant, Bohdan Winiarski and Enrique International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop- C. Armand-Ugon. ment; International Finance Corporation; Inter- Substitutes: national Monetary Fund; International Civil Avia- Judges Green Hackworth and Abdel Hamid Badawi. tion Organization; International Telecommunication