Case of the Free Zones of Upper Savoy and the District of Gex, France V
Case of the Free Zones of Upper Savoy and the District of Gex, France v.... http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1932.06.07_savoy_gex.htm General List No. 32 Judgment No. 17 7 June 1932 PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Twenty-Fifth Session Case of the Free Zones of Upper Savoy and the District of Gex France v. Switzerland Judgment Vice-President:Anzilotti BEFORE: (acting as President) Loder, Altamira, Oda, Huber, Sir Cecil Hurst, Kellogg, Yovanovitch, Judges: Beichmann, Negulesco, Judge(s) ad Dreyfus, hoc: Represented J. Basdevant, Legal Adviser to the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, France: By: Professor of the Faculty of Law at the University of Paris Switzerland: H. E. M. A. de Рurу, Swiss Minister to the Netherlands, and by M. P. Logoz, Member of the Swiss National Council, and Professor at the University of Geneva Perm. Link: http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/decisions/1932.06.07_savoy_gex.htm Citation: Free Zones of Upper Savoy and District of Gex (Fr. v. Switz.), 1932 P.C.I.J. (ser.A/B) No. 46 (June 7) Publication: Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice Series A./B. No. 46; Collection of Judgments, Orders and Advisory Opinions A.W. Sijthoff’s Publishing Company, Leyden, 1932. [p97] The Court, composed as above, delivers the following judgment: [1] By a Special Agreement, which was signed at Paris on October 30th, 1924 - the ratifications being exchanged on March 21st, 1928 - and which was filed with the Registry of the Court under cover of letters dated March 29th, 1928, from the Ministers of France and Switzerland at The Hague, the Governments of the French Republic and of the Swiss Confederation, having been unable to agree in regard to the interpretation to be placed upon Article 435, paragraph 2, of the Treaty of Versailles, with its Annexes, and not having been able to effect the agreement provided for therein by direct negotiations, have asked the Court to determine the said interpretation, and to settle all the questions involved by the execution of paragraph 2 of Article 435 of the said Treaty.
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