Dear Colleagues,
In connection with the enclosed PILPG at: http://www.pilpg.org Update on their serving as Co-Counsel in the Abyei Arbitration, of which Oral Hearings will be held in the magnificent Peace Palace, The Hague on 18-23 April 2009, please kindly see: What Will Happen During Abyei Hearings? of 16 April 2009 at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article30883 via: http://www.sudantribune.com/ & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 which is listed with other pertaining websites below.
Regarding the CLCS Submissions heating up by mid-May 2009, the Commission nicely and efficiently reorganized its website last week into http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/commission_submissions.htm and latest news are at: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Continental_Shelf
Norway's Outer CS Sealed by the CLCS of 16 April 2009 at: http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/21903/26/
Rising Sea-Bed Claims Swamp UN Commission of 13 April 2009 at: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/13/13greenwire-rising-seabed-claims-swamp-un-commission-10511.html
23rd CLCS 2 March-9 April 2009 at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/sea1911.doc.htm via: http://www.un.org/apps/pressreleases/ and CLCS Submissions at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/commission_submissions.htm via: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/clcs_home.htm via: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/
Update on the UK Submission to the CLCS of 8 April 2009 -beautiful piece! - at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=News&id=16057770 via: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/ Regarding Submissions on Antarctica along Australian or NZ models at: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/commission_submissions.htm , they were certainly hotly debated at the 50th Antarctica Anniversary:
Joint Arctic-ATCM Session in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 6 April 2009 and 32nd ATCM [50 Years 1959-2009] on 6-17 April 2009 at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/04/121151.htm and UK FM on Antarctic Treaty of 9 April 2009 at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=16095744 and UK at the 50th Antarctica Anniversary of 8 April 2009 at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=News&id=16099106 & http://www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/other/2009/121339.htm via: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/ and Secretary Clinton: USA Is Committed to Ratify the UNCLOS of 6-7 April 2009 at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/sc_afp/usdiplomacyscienceenvironmentoceans_20090406174339 & http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/saskatoon/story.html?id=1470347 and Clinton's Statement of 6 April 2009 at: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/04/121314.htm and Antarctica-Arctic Joint Meeting of 6 April at: http://www.state.gov/g/oes/rls/other/2009/121340.htm via http://www.state.gov/ and http://www.atcm2009.gov/ and http://www.un.org/Depts/los/ and Ice Bridge Ruptures in Antarctic of 5 April 2009 at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7984054.stm and Arctic-Antarctic Territorial Claims of 4 April 2009 at http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/090404103612.vp30hap5.html and http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090404/pl_afp/usantarcticarcticdiplomacytourismscienceenvironment_20090404155917 via: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=ATCM & http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Antarctica and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica & & http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/fco-in-action/global-network/antarctica/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic and US Warships & Military Aircraft at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7986635.stm
Kind regards,
Barbara
[ http://www.encyclopedia.com/The+George+Washington+International+Law+Review/publications.aspx?date=200705&pageNumber=1 and No.13 & No.27 at: http://catalogue.ppl.nl/DB=1/LNG=EN/REL?PPN=076251780 & http://www.uu.nl/nilos & http://catalogue.ppl.nl/DB=1/SET=1/TTL=9/CLK?IKT=1004&TRM=Kwiatkowska,+Barbara ]
North-South Sudan Abyei Arbitration between the Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Revolutionary Movement at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 & http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?nws_id=255&pag_id=1261&ac=view & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=363 & http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&nws_id=212 and http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&nws_id=211&pag_id=1261 and 31 October 2008 at: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/4891/dupuy-preside-sudan-dispute/ [via: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/] and H.E. Judge Schwebel at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_M._Schwebel & http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&nws_id=106 and H.E. Judge Al-Khasawneh at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awn_Shawkat_Al-Khasawneh [via: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:International_Court_of_Justice_judges] and http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1 and Michael Reisman at: http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/faculty/Reisman.html & http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/WReisman.htm & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1158 and Gerhard Hafner at: http://www.liechtenstein-icj-case.li/en_verfahren/88.html & http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/faculty/Hafner.html and Abyei President Pierre-Marie Dupuy at: http://www.eui.eu/LAW/People/Faculty/CVs/dupuy.shtml & http://graduateinstitute.ch/law/faculty/faculty_law.html :
Abyei Tribunal at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306
July 7, 2008 : Arbitration Agreement at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/Abyei%20Arbitration%20Agreement.pdf
November 24, 2008: Terms of Appointment at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/Abyei_Terms_of_Appointment_signed_241108.pdf
November 24, 2008: Preliminary Procedural Hearing, Peace Palace, The Hague at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/Transcript_Abyei_241108%20_rev2.pdf
December 18, 2008: Memorials at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/GoS%20Memorial.pdf & http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/SPLM%20Memorial.pdf
February 13, 2009 : Counter-Memorials at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/GoS_CounterMemorial.pdf & http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/SPLM-A_CounterMemorial.pdf
February 28, 2009 : Rejoinders at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/GoS%20Rejoinder.pdf & http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/SPLM-A%20Rejoinder.pdf
April 18-23, 2009 : Oral Hearings, Peace Palace, The Hague at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/Press%20accreditation%20form.pdf & http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/Admission%20individual.pdf & http://www.pca-cpa.org/upload/files/Admission%20group.pdf
The North-South Sudan Abyei Boundary Oral Hearings on 18-23 April 2009 will be the first Arbitral Hearings on Territorial-Boundary Matters in which public access to already Written Pleadings and Oral Hearings will be allowed at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 Previously, the Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Arbitration was unprecedented in making Written-Oral Pleadings available but only after the 2006 Award was rendered at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1152 and Guyana/Suriname followed Barbados/T&T practice in regard of its 2007 Award at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1147 . The step forward by the Abyei Tribunal of making both Written-Oral Pleadings directly available at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 is a remarkable and welcome procedural breakthrough.
What Will Happen During Abyei Hearings? of 16 April 2009 at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article30883 via: http://www.sudantribune.com/ & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 and US Senator Kerry Meeting Sudan's Vice-President of 16 April 2009 at: http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-04-16-voa5.cfm and Egypt FM Challenges ICC of 15 April 2009 at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article30886 and ICC at: http://www2.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Home and UN Sudan Foreign Minister of 1 April 2009 at http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/362/0362725.html and UN Sudan Ambassador of 31 March 2009 at http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/362/0362691.html via http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
PCA NEWS CHRONOLOGICALLY: Abyei Boundary Arbitration Between the Government of Sudan and Sudan's People Liberation Movement-Army at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 and News on: Parties Refer Abyei Dispute to PCA of 3 July 2008 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&nws_id=211 & Parties Deposit Abyei Arbitration Agreement and Designate Agents of 2 October 2008 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&searchkind=archive&nws_id=212 & Norway's Contribution to the PCA Fund Will Be Used by North and South Sudan in Abyei Arbitration of 18 December 2008 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&pag_id=1261&nws_id=251 & Constitution of the Abyei Tribunal and Adoption of Its Schedule of 18 December 2008 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?ac=view&nws_id=255&pag_id=1264
Text of Abyei Road Map Agreement of 8 June 2008 is at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article27519 and was published and linked in the end of news: Abyei Roadmap Resolves on Two Solutions of 14 June 2008 at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article27510 via: http://www.sudantribune.com/ and the Abyei Agreement was also published by BBC on 15 June 2008 at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/08_06_08_abyei.pdf [via: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7455537.stm]
2005 Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) - of 11 December 2007 (19 pages) at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25125 and ABC Report at: http://www.sudanarchive.net/cgi-bin/sudan?a=d&d=Dl1d18 via: http://www.sudanarchive.net/ and 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement at: http://www.sudanarchive.net/cgi-bin/sudan?a=d&d=Dl1d36
2007 AU Border Programme - AU Summary at: http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Conferences/2007/june/PSC/7/summary_Note.doc and AU Declaration of 7 June 2007 at: http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Conferences/2007/june/PSC/7/Final_draft_Declaration.doc & http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/1/38769082.pdf & http://www.issafrica.org/dynamic/administration/file_manager/file_links/AUBORDERPROGJUN07.PDF?link_id=4056&slink_id=5561&link_type=12&slink_type=13&tmpl_id=3
Sudan Oil at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?mot37 and ECOS Map at: http://www.ecosonline.org/ [linked at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article17737]
UN News Focus Sudan at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=88&Body=Sudan&Body1 via right margin at: http://www.un.org/news/ and ICC at: http://www2.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Home
Please see also: New ICJ President H.E. Hisashi Owada at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisashi_Owada & http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1 & http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/362/0362054.html at the 103rd ASIL on 27 March 2009 at: http://am2009.asil.org/program.cfm as well as immediate past ICJ President H.E. Rosalyn Higgins at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Higgins & http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/detail/159/0159713.html and former ICJ President H.E. Stephen M. Schwebel at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:International_Court_of_Justice_judges & http://www.exalead.com/wikipedia/results/Stephen%20Schwebel/en & http://www.exalead.com/wikipedia/results/Rosalyn%20Higgins/en & http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1&judge=6 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_M._Schwebel & http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/PublicInternationalLaw/GeneralPublicInternationalLaw/?view=usa&ci=9780198262350 & http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Reflections_on_International_Ajudication.pdf at the ILSA-ASIL Gala Dinner Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Jessup Moot Court Competition on 27 March 2009 at: http://www.ilsa.org/jessup/50/50thCommittee.pdf & http://am2009.asil.org/program.cfm at the 103rd ASIL Annual Meeting on International Law as Law, Fairmont Hotel, Washington, D.C., 25-28 March 2009 at: http://am2009.asil.org/index.cfm & http://www.asil.org/annual-meeting.cfm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D._C. & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jessup A team from Los Andes University in Colombia Has Won the 50th Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Competition, Defeating a Team from University College London at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Andes,_Colombia & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_London and Colombian Panelist Also Won the newly launched Former ICJ President Stephen M. Schwebel Prize for "Best Jessup Oralist" of 30 March 2009 [reprinted with its SuperStar Shots in this email below] at: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/5195/ via: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com
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PILPG Update: PILPG serving as Co-Counsel in the Abyei Arbitration before the PCA.
April 15, 2009
On April 18, the oral hearings for the Abyei Arbitration will commence at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. PILPG is serving, along with WilmerHale, as pro bono Co-Counsel for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
The Abyei Arbitration concerns the final settlement of a boundary dispute between the SPLM/A and the Government of Sudan over Abyei, an area that straddles the north-south border in Sudan. Depending on the outcome of the 2011 referenda, this border may become an international boundary should Southern Sudan elect to become an independent state and the residents of Abyei simultaneously choose to become part of the South.
Under the terms of the parties' arbitration agreement, the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal is expected to issue its final decision before the end of July of this year. All materials submitted to the Tribunal by the SPLM/A and Government of Sudan are available to the public at the PCA's web site - http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 .
The PILPG team includes Dr. Paul Williams, Vanessa Jiménez (Senior Peace Fellow and Director of PILPG's Sudan Project), Bridget Rutherford (Peace Fellow), and Courtney Nicolaisen and Anand Shah (Senior Research Associates).
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