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Oral Proceedings Concerning the Preliminary Objection ORAL PROCEEDINGS CONCERNING THE PRELIMINARY OBJECTION PUBLIC SITTINGS held at the Peace Palace, The Hague, /rom June 9th to qrd, and July 22nd, 1952, the Vice-President, M. Guerrero, acting as Presidelzt SECTION B PROCÉDURE ORALE CONCERNANT L'EXCEPTION PRÉLIMINAIRE SÉANCES PUBLIQUES tenues na6 Palais de la Paix, La Haye, da6 g au 23 juin et le 22 juillet 1952, SOUS la firésidefice de M. Guerrero, Vice-Président. faisa~it fonction de Président MINUTES OF THE SITTINGS HELD FROM JUNE 9th TO zjrd AND JULY zznd, 19jz YEAR 1952 FOURTH PUBLIC SITTING (g VI 52, II a.m.) Present : Vice-President GUERRERO,Acting President ; President Sir Arnold MCNAIR; Judges ALVAREZ,BASDEVANT, HACKWORTH, WINIARSKI.ZORICIC, KLAESTAD, BADAWI, READ, HSU MO, CARNEIRO, ARMAND-UGON;Dr. Karim SANDJABI,Judge ad hoc; Registrar HAMBRO. Also present : For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Xorthern Ireland: Sir Eric BECKETT, K.C.M.G., Q.C., Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office. as Agent, assisted by : Sir Lionel HEALD,Q.C., M.P., Attorne General, Professor C. H. M. WALDOCX,C.M.G., &B.E., Q.C., Chichele Professor of international law at the University of Oxford, MI. H. A. P. FISHER,Member of the English Bar, MI. D. H. N. JOHNSON, Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign Office. as Counsel, and by : MI. A. D. M. Ross, Eastern Department, Foreign Office, MI. A. K. ROTHNIE,Eastern Department, Foreign Office. as Expert Advisers. For the Imperia1 Gouernment of Iran: M. Hossein NAVAB,Iranian Minister at The Hague, as Agent, Dr. MOSSADEGH,Prime Minister, assisted by : M. Nasrollah ENTEZAM,Ambassador, former Minister, and by : M. Henri ROLIN,Professor of international law at Brussels Univer- sity, former President of the Belgian Senate, as Advocate. PROCÈS-VERBAUXDES SÉANCESTENUES DU g AU 23 JUIN ET I,E 22 JUILLET 1952 QUATRIÈME SCANCE PUBLIQUE (9 VI jz, rr h.) Présents : AL GUERRERO.Vice-Président, faisa?zt fonction de Président ; Sir Arnold MCNAIR, Président ; MM. ALVAREZ,BASDEVANT, HACK- WORTH,WINIARSKI, ZORIEIC, KLAESTAD,BADAWI, READ, HSU MO, CARNE~RO,ARMAND-UCON, JtL~e.5 ; Dr Karim SANDJABI,Jnge ad hoc ; 1M. HAMBRO,G~efier. Présents également : Poztr le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord: Sir Eric BECKE~,K. C. M. G., Q. C., jurisconsulte du ministère des Affaires étrangères, en qualité d'agent, assisté de : Sir Lionel HEALD,Q. C., M. P., Attorney-Generul, Professeur C. H. M. WALDOCK,C. M. G., O. B. E., Q. C., professeur de droit international public à l'Université d'Oxford (chaire Chichele), M. H. A. P. FISHER,membre du barreau anglais, M. D. H. N. TOHNSON. ,iurisconsulte adioint au ministère des Affaires étrangères: comme conseils, ainsi que : M. A. D. M. Ross, département d'orient, ministère des Affaires étran- gères, M. A. K. ROTHNIE,dkpartement d'orient, ministère des Affaires étrangères, comme experts. Pour le Gouvernement impérial de l'Iran : M. Hossein NAVAB,ministre d'Iran à La Haye, en qualité d'agent, Dr MOSSADEGH,Premier Ministre. assisté de : M. Nasrollah ENTEZAM,ambassadeur, ancien ministre, et de : M. Henri ROLIN,professeur de droit international à l'université de Bruxelles, ancien président de Sénat belge, comme avocat. 427 srnrsc OF JUSE gth, 1952 and by : M. Allah Yar SALEH,former Minister, Dr. S. Ali SHAYEGAN,former Minister, Member of Parliament, Dr. Mosafar BAGHAI,Member of Parliament, M. Kazem HASSIBI,Engineer, Member of Parliament, Dr. hlohamad Hossein ALIABADI,Professor at the Tehran Faculty of Law, Me. Marcel SLUS~NY,of the Bmssels Bar, as Counsel. The VICE-PRESIDEST,Acting President, opened the hearing and stated that the Court was assemhled to deal with the dispute which had arisen between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Iranian Empire, following the adoption of the Iranian Oil Nationalization Act of May 1st. 1951. He declared that, in accordance with Article 13 of the Rules of Court, the President of the Court, being a national of one of the Parties to the case, had transferred the Presi- dency for the case to him, as Vice-President of the Court. Proceedings in this case were instituted by Application of the Govern- ment of the United Kingdom, transmitted to the Court on May 26th. 1951. By Order of December zoth, 1951, the Court fixed Febmary ~rth, 1952. as the date of expiry of the time-limit for the deposit of the Coun- ter-Rlemonal or of an objectiori to the Court's junsdiction by the Imperial Government of Iran. Within this time-limit the Imperial Government deposited a document entitled : "Preliminary Observations : Refusal of the Imperial Government to recognize the jurisdiction of the Court." In that document the Im~enalGovernment indicated that these obser\..îtions did not set out the \vholc of itj c:ise on tlie Coiirr's ltck of jiirisdiction :incl tli:it furtlier obier\.:itioiis \i.uiilil he submitteil i~rally. Consequently, the Court was caiied upon to deal with the objection to its jurisdiction which had thus heen raised. The Acting President called upon the Registrar to read the submis- sions of the United Kingdom Government on this point, as they had been stated in the document filed on March qth, 1952, and entitled : "Observations and Submissions presented by the Government of the United Kingdom of Grcat Britain and Northern Irelünd in regard to the Preliminary Objection lodged by the Imperial Government of Iran." The REGISTRARread the relevant passage '. The ACTINGPRESIDEST stated that two Afembers of the Court were not Sitting. Having represented India on the Security Council in October 1951, when it dealt with the United Kingdom's complaint against Iran for failure to comply with the intenm measures indicated by the Court in July 1951, in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company case, Sir Benegal Rau had considered it his duty, in agreement with the Court, not to sit in this case. ' See pp. 369-370. SÉANCE DU 9 JUIN 1952 assisté de : Téhéran, Mo Marcel SLU~~NY,membre du barreau de Bruxelles, comme conseils. Après avoir déclaré l'audience ouverte, le VICE-PI<ÉSIDENT,faisant fonction de Président, signale que la Cour se réunit aujourd'hui pour examiner le difiérend surgi entre le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord et l'Empire de i'lran, à la suite dc l'adoption de la loi iranienne du Icr mai 1951 sur la nationalisation des pétroles. Il précise que, conformément aux dispositions de l'article 13. du Règle- ment, le Président de la Cour, se trouvant être le ressortissant d'une des Parties en cause, a cédé sa place au Vice-Président, aux fins de la pré- sente affaire. Puis il rappelle que cette affaire a été introduite par une requête du Gouvernement du Royaume-Uni transmise à la Cour le 26 mai 1951. Par ordonnance du zo décembre de la même année; la Cour avait fixé au II février 1952 la date d'expiration du délai pour le dépôt du contre-mémoire ou de l'exception d'incompétence du Gouvernement im~érialde l'Iran. Dans ce délai. le Gouvernement imnérial a dériosé iiii'dociinicnr intitiil; : tt 0bsr.rv;itioiis pr<liniinnircs l<Aiis dii (;o&c.r- nement iml16ri:ll dc reconnaitre 1.î conipCtcnce dc I:i Cuiir. i Ilans cc dociiiiient Ic (;oiiverneriitnt iiiii~érialn indioii;. oiic. lesdites observations nL. conten:iient pas route son argiiriielitatioii tcnd:iiit h I'incorn~>(ti~iii:vil,. In Coiir et qu'il ~)risentrraitornlcment <les obser- vations-supplémentaires. La Cour est donc appelée aujourd'hui à connaître de l'exception d'incompétence ainsi soulevée. Le Vice-Président prie ensuite le Greffier de donner lecture des conclu- sions du Gouvernement du Royaume-Uni sur ce point, telles qii'elles sont énoncées dans le document déposé le 24 mars 1952 et intitulé : (i Observations et conclusions présentées par le Gouvernement dii Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande dii Kord au sujet de l'exception préliminaire soulevée par le Gouvernement impérial de l'Iran. 1, Le GREFFIERdonne lecture du texte en question '. Le VICE-PRÉSIDESTindique que deux membres de la Cour n'ont pas pris s6ance aujourd'hui. Sir Benegal Rau, ayant en octobre 1951 représenté l'Inde au Conseil de Sécurité des Nations Unies, lorsjue cet organe a examiné la plainte du lioyaume-Uni contre l'Iran pour non-observation des mesures conser- vatoires indiquées par la Cour en juillet 1951 en l'affaire de 1'Anglo- Iranian Oil Company, a cru devoir, d'accord avec la Cour, ne pas siéger dans cette affaire. Voir pp. 369-370 Fiirthermore.- ~~~~~~-~~~~~~, M. Golunskv was nrevented' for reasons of health from taking part in the present case. The Imperial Government of Iran, not having a judge of its nation- ality on thc bench, had availed itself of the right conferred upon it by Article 31 of the Statute and had designated as its judge ad hoc in the case, Al. Karim Sandjabi, Professor and former Dean of the Law Faculty of Tehran, Deputy and former Minister. The Acting President called upon M. Sandjabi to make, in accordance with Article 5 of the Rules. the solemn declaration prescribed by Arti- - cle 20 of the Statute of the Court. M. SANDIABImade thc solemn declaration. The ACTINGPRESIDENT placed on record the declaration made by hl. Sandjabi and declared him duly installed as a judge in the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company case. The Acting President declared that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Xorthern Ireland was represented by : Sir Eric BECKETT,K.C.M.G., Q.C., Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, as Agent, assisted by : Sir Lionel HEALD,Q.C., h1.P.. Attomey-General, Professor C.
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