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United Nations A/77/L.58
General Assembly Distr.: Limited
1 March 2023
Original: English
23-03831 (E) 060323
*2303831*
Seventy-seventh session
Agenda item 70

Dossier
No. Date Type of Document Document Symbol Title
1 01 March 2023 Draft General Assembly
Resolution A/77/L.58 Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of
climate change
2 29 March 2023 General Assembly Resolution A/RES/77/276 Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of
climate change
3 29 March 2023 General Assembly Official
Records A/77/PV.64 Sixty-fourth plenary meeting
4 9 May 1992 / 21
March 1994

1
MATERIALS COMPILED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 65, PARAGRAPH 2 OF
THE STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
(Request for an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice pursuant to
General Assembly Resolution 77/276)
Introductory Note
30 June 2023
The Request
1. Under agenda item 70 of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly entitled “Report
of the International Court of Justice”, the representative of Vanuatu, on behalf of Algeria,
Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh,