SEPARATE OPINION OF VICE-PRESIDENT AMMOUN

[Translationj

President Sir Muhammad ZAFRULLA KHANmakes the following
declaration :

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE MOROZOV

1voted against the decision to comply with the request for an advisory
opinion and also in the negative on both Question 1 and Question II

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE DE CASTRO

[Translation]

To my regret, 1find that 1am obliged to append a dissenting opinion

to the Advisory Opinion of the Court.
1agree with the mstjorityof the Members of the Court on the question
of the Court's competence to givethe opinion, and 1propose to give my
reasons on this point.
1am not in agreement with the conclusions reached by the majority of
the Members of the Court on the substance of the case, and 1think that1
should set out the reasons which support my dissent.

DISSENTING OPINION OF JUDGE GROS

[Translation]

1regret that 1am iunableto concur in the Opinion of the Court and,
that being so, 1set forth the grounds of my dissent below.

DISSENTING OPINION OF VICE-PRESIDENT AMMOUN

(Translation]

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE JIMÉNEZ DE ARÉCHAGA

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE DILLARD

I agree with the decision and operative clauses of the Opinion. 1 am
prompted to add a separate opinion only because in some respects the
reasons which have led me to agree donot coincidewith those revealed in
the Opinion. As will appear, this separate opinion is concerned lesswith
an analysis of facts than with matters of emphasis and with certain
theoretical considerations bearing on one of the two principal questions
addressed to the Court.

SEPARATE OPINION OF JUDGE ONYEAMA

1have voted on the merits of the Opinion notwithstanding that I do
not agree with the Opinion on the view it takes on the question of
jurisdiction: in my view, it is for the Court, under Article 36, paragra6,
of the Statute of the Court, to settle the question of jurisdiction. Its

President LA CH^ makes the following declaration:

While 1am in full agreement with the reasoning and conclusions of the