President Golitsyn welcomes delegation of Judges of the International Court of Justice to Hamburg
The President of the International Court of Justice, Mr Peter Tomka, together with a delegation of five other judges of the ICJ, Judges Hisashi Owada, Antônio Cançado Trindade, Xue Hanquin, Giorgio Gaja and Julia Sebutinde, and its Registrar, Mr Philippe Couvreur, visited the Tribunal on 26 and 27 January 2015. The ICJ delegation was welcomed by the President of the Tribunal, Judge Vladimir Golitsyn, and the Registrar, Mr Philippe Gautier, and subsequently joined by Judges Chandrasekhara Rao, José Luis Jesus, Shunji Yanai, Helmut Türk and David Attard. The occasion provided the judges of the two judicial institutions with the opportunity to hold extensive discussions and exchange views on various aspects of international law of interest to both the Tribunal and the Court, in particular on legal and practical issues involved in the handling of law-of-the-sea cases.
By Order of 12 January 2015, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has formed a Special Chamber to deal with a dispute concerning delimitation of the maritime boundary between the Republic of Ghana and the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. This Special Chamber consists of Vice-President Bouguetaia (Algeria), Judges Wolfrum (Germany) and Paik (Republic of Korea) and Judges ad hoc Thomas Mensah (Ghana) and Ronny Abraham (France). Vice-President Bouguetaia will preside over the Chamber.
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