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Dear IBRU Colleagues,

 

Please find enclosed herewith for your interest list of some Pending and Past UNCLOS Related Arbitrations along updates of my Decisions of the World Court (2010) book at: http://www.brill.nl/decisions-world-court-relevant-un-convention-law-sea & http://nijhoffonline.nl/credited_person?id=KwiatkowskaB

 

Kind regards, Barbara

Prof. B. Kwiatkowska

UNCLOS Independent Consultant

Former Deputy Director NILOS Utrecht University

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/barbara-kwiatkowska/42/814/a77

 

ASIL Peaceful Resolution of International Disputes: Past, Present, and Future H.E. exICJJudges Stephen M. Schwebel and Thomas Buergenthal at: http://www.asil.org/peaceful-resolution-international-disputes-past-present-and-future and with PCA Secretary-General at:  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151406138763666&set=a.10151406136628666.451656.95729648665&type=1&permPage=1 

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/international_law/2012/03/corell-schwebel-crawford.html & http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/judge_stephen_m_schwebel_photographs_of_judge_stephen_m._schwebel.php  & http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8202811 & http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31893/whos-sitting-icsid-tribunal-round-up/

 

ASIL President Donovan: From the ICJ to the Supreme Court: The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, International Law, and the US Constitution - Geneva, 25 March 2014 at: http://www.asil.org/event/icj-supreme-court-vienna-convention-consular-relations-international-law-and-us-constitution and Julian Davis Mortenson, The Travaux of Travaux: Is the Vienna Convention Hostile to Drafting History? 107 AJIL 780-823 (2013 No.4) at: http://www.asil.org/resources/american-journal-international-law 

LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Facts, Evidence and Causation: Practice of the ICJ' by Robert Volterra [log in to unmask]

Friday, 8 November 2013 - 1:00pm

at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/events/lcil-friday-lecture-facts-evidence-and-causation-practice-icj-robert-volterra via: http://www.volterrafietta.com/newsletter/vf.enews.2014.0127.asp & http://www.volterrafietta.com/news.enewsletters.asp and Caroline Foster [log in to unmask] , New Clothes for the Emperor? Consultation of Experts by the International Court of Justice(Link) in   4(3) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2013 and her Science and the Precautionary Principle in International Courts and Tribunals: Expert Evidence, Burden of Proof and Finality(Link)  Cambridge University Press (2011) & http://nz.linkedin.com/pub/caroline-foster/42/927/8a7 

 

 

Tuesday, 28 May 2013 - 5:00pm at: http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/events/lcil-evening-lecture-international-law-smart-power-professor-harold-koh  and Former Law Dean and Brilliant U.S. Legal Adviser Harold Koh to Return to Yale - What a Great  Pitty for US Foreign Policy!!! - of 7 December 2012 at: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/12/07/state-departments-top-lawyer-heading-out/ & http://yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2012/12/07/former-law-dean-harold-koh-to-return-to-yale/ & http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/12/12/after-over-three-years-koh-to-return/ &  http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&rlz=1G1ACAWCNLNL360&q=Harold+Koh&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=NA4_TbiCLcmhOsbX8YML&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=10&ved=0CGEQsAQwCQ&biw=1067&bih=571&sei=5TbKUMnFGMaH0AWPpYG4DQ&tbm=isch and Koh's Resignation by Deborah Pearlstein of 9 December 2012 at: http://opiniojuris.org/2012/12/09/jeh-johnson-and-harold-koh-to-step-down/ via: http://opiniojuris.org/ and Blaming it on the Drone Program of 10 December 2012 at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2012/12/10/assume-obama-drone-rules-dead/ & http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/12/07/state-departments-top-lawyer-heading-out/ and Why Is Harold Koh Leaving? and Mary McLeod Will Be Acting US Legal Adviser of 12 December 2012 at: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/top-state-dept-lawyer-is-leaving/  & http://www.state.gov/s/l/releases/162349.htm  via: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Harold_Koh  and Harold Koh and Cyber War of 26 September 2012 at: http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/09/26/u-s-says-cyber-attack-similar-to-an-armed-attack/ & http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/09/20/state-department-lawyer-cyberattacks-against-us-could-be-seen-as-act-of-war/ and Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis (2010) at: http://www.shapingforeignpolicy.com/ and http://www.asil.org/koh.cfm & http://www.asil.org/koh-am10.cfm  & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hongju_Koh &  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYN2zu74rM&feature=related

 

 

PCA Homepage at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=363and Cases at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1029 

Current ITLOS Judges at: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=96&L=0

All ITLOS Judges at: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=97

ICJ Judges at: http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1

UN DOALOS Director Serguei Tarassenko & Ilaria Tani, The Functions and the Role of the UN Secretariat in Oceans Affairs and the Law of the Sea, in David Freestone Editor-in-Chief, The UNCLOS at 30, 27 IJMCL 683-699 (2012 No.4) at: http://www.brill.com/international-journal-marine-and-coastal-law& http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/06/daily-press-briefing-and-guest-professor-david-freestone-on-the-occasion-of-world-oceans-day.html & http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/faculty/Freestone.html & http://www.asil.org/insights110309.cfm

 

 

PCA Denmark (Faroes) v. EU Herring Arbitration:

 

Hafner,  Pinto, Mensah, Orrego Vicuña and Wolfrum 

Hafner,  Pinto, Mensah, Orrego Vicuña and Wolfrum 

Hafner (ex-Abyei Arbitrator), Pinto, Mensah (1st hottest ITLOS & Annex VII), Orrego Vicuña (hottest ICSID & Annex VII) and Wolfrum (1st hottest ITLOS & Annex VII) at: http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/32508/first-hearing-herring-panel-pca/  & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1554

            A five-member panel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration is getting ready to hear a claim against the European Union over a ban on fish exports from the Faroe Islands of 18 March 2014 - Judge Thomas A. Mensah (Presiding Arbitrator, ex-ITLOS/Ghana), Professor Gerhard Hafner (Austria), Professor Francisco Orrego Vicuña (Chile), Dr. M.C.W. Pinto (Sri Lanka) and Judge Rüdiger Wolfrum (ex-ITLOS/Germany) - and Tribunal's Organizational Meeting on 15 March 2014 at: http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/32508/first-hearing-herring-panel-pca/ & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1554 and A meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Board decided to grant a request by the Faroe Islands to create a panel of experts to probe EU measures restricting entry into the bloc of herring and mackerel caught by Faroe fishermen of 26 February 2014 at: http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/faroe-denmark-wto.u3a & http://uk.news.yahoo.com/faroe-islands-steps-eu-fish-fight-wto-panel-184435191.html via: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Faroe+Islands

Unfortunately, European Union has used its veto right in WTO Dispute Settlement Body on 22 Jan 2014 to block the establishment of a WTO Denmark (Faroes) v. EU Herring Panel, the establishment of which is now deferred to the next meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body, on 26 February 2014, at which point the EU cannot block the establishment of a panel to consider the claims of the Faroe Islands of 27 January 2014 (see esp. ending paragraph) at: http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/20591/Mackerel_talks_move_to_Bergen.html; and ASIL Insights of 14 February 2014 at: http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/18/issue/4/eu-faroe-islands-herring-stock-dispute-wto-environmental-justification & https://www.facebook.com/SupportFaroeIslands and Faroese government has asked the WTO to look at its dispute with the European Union of 14 January 2014 at: http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/20544/World_Trade_Organisation_to_hear_Faroes_sanctions_plea_next_week.html  and 9 January 2014 at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-25661128 and Faroes v. EU Herring War of 21 August 2013 at: http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31832/faroe-islands-names-shoal-arbitrator/ 

 

UNCLOS Annex VII Malta v. Sao Tome & Principe Duzgit Integrity  Arbitration:

 

Annex VII Malta v. Sao Tome & Principe Duzgit Integrity Arbitral Tribunal: Tullio Treves (ex-ITLOS/Italy, Malta), James Kateka (ITLOS/Tanzania, Sao Tome) and A.H.A. Soons (ex-NILOS, Arbitration's Chairman) of 18 March 2014 at: http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_209_E.pdf  and São Tomé Government Selling European Oil Cargo Illegally Confiscated from Duzgit Integrity of 16 October 2913 at: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sao-tome-government-selling-european-oil-cargo-illegally-confiscated-228044021.html & http://shipandbunker.com/news/world/522133-stena-oil-government-tried-to-sell-oil-illegally-in-west-africa and 9 April 2013 at: http://www.seanews.com.tr/article/worldship/99300/Marida-Melissa-DUZGIT-Integrity-Sao-Tome-Sentenced & http://www.sailors-club.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25553:tanker-seized-in-sao-tome&catid=7:news&Itemid=131

           Sao Tome Names New Military Chief of 19 February 2014 at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/uk-saotome-army-idUKBREA1I21C20140219

 

 

UNCLOS Annex VIIBangladesh v. India Bay of Bengal Arbitration:

 

 

Annex VII Bangladesh/India Bay of Bengal Territorial and Maritime Dispute Arbitral Tribunal, comprising P. Sreenivasa Rao (India), Thomas A. Mensah (ex-ITLOS, Ghana, replaced Vaughan Lowe (UK) on 16 December 2010), Jean-Pierre Cot (ITLOS/France, replaced Tullio Treves,ex-ITLOS/Italy), Ivan A. Shearer (Australia) and President Rudiger Wolfrum (ITLOS/Germany) at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1376 ; which originated from Bangladesh/India and Bangladesh/Myanmar Applications of Bangladesh Instituting the UNCLOS Annex VII Arbitrations against India and Myanmar of 8 October  2009 at: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Foley-Hoag-Retained-by-prnews-3825507638.html?x=0&.v=1, www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=289186,  www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=81254  & http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6778140.html

            Resignation of Tullio Treves in favour of Jean-Pierre Cot on Annex VII Bangladesh/India Tribunal of 19 July 2013 at: http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_198_E.pdf  & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1376 and A senior consultant at Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle (Tullio Treves) in Milan has resigned from a tribunal hearing a maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India because of an alleged conflict of interests of 22 July 2013 at: http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31765/curtis-lawyer-resigns-bay-bengal-panel/  Previously: Thomas Mensah (ITLOS-Ghana) Replaces Vaughan Lowe on Annex VII Bangladesh/India Tribunal of 16 December 2010  at http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/28993/lowe-steps-down-bay-bengal-panel & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1376  Triad of ITLOS Judges Wolfrum-Cot-Mensah are now at 2 parallel  UNCLOS Annex VII Arbitral Tribunals at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1376 and South China Sea http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_197_E.pdf  & http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31686/ghanaian-chair-south-china-sea-panel/ and http://globalnation.inquirer.net/73119/intl-arbitration-panel-ready-to-hear-ph-case-against-china & http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_191_E.pdf  http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=86

 

UNCLOS Annex VII Mauritius v. UK Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration:

UNCLOS Annex VII Mauritius v. UK Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitral Tribunal: Professor Ivan Shearer (Australia, Chairman), H.E.  Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood CMG QC (ICJ, UK), Albert Hoffmann (ITLOS/South Africa), James Kateka (ITLOS/Tanzania) and Rüdiger Wolfrum (ITLOS/Germany) and Procedural Order No.2 of 15 January 2013 Refuses UK Request to Hold Jurisdictional Hearing Separate from the Merits [what indicates that Jurisdiction will be upheld] and PCA Press Release of 22 January 2013 at: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31115/panel-says-no-split-proceeding-chagos-islands/ & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1429 http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1288 and The Chagos Tribunal's Decision of 30 November 2011 Rejects Challenge of Mauritius [made on its Counsel's  Misadvice] against H.E. Judge Greenwood [Decision, paras 53, 122, 164: Guillaume; and paras 54, 145: Elaraby; and para.151: UNEEBC; and paras 91, 127, 177: Higgins] at http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1429 and 4 January 2012  at: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/30056/greenwood-survives-challenge-chagos-islands-case/ & http://www.asil.org/ilib120106.cfm & http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1 & http://www.icj-cij.org/court/index.php?p1=1&p2=2&p3=1&judge=169 & http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/30056/greenwoodsurvives-challenge-chagos-islands-case/ [also T&T's Counsel in Annex VII Barbados v. T&T at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1152http://www.arbitration-icca.org/officers-and-members.html & http://www.asil.org/insights110405.cfm and and 2 June 2011 at: http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/29500/mauritius-uk-fight-chagos-islands and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory and British Overseas Territory Law (2011) at: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781849460194

Seychelles

 

PCA Timor Leste v. Australia  Arbitration:

            On PCA Timor Leste v. Australia Arbitration, see 2014 ICJ Timor Leste v. Australia (Provisional Measures) Order, dispositif para.55(3) at:  http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/156/18078.pdf via: http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?p1=3&p2=3

PCA Timor Leste v. Australia Arbitration of 23 April 2013 under Paragraph (b) of Annex B to Article 23 of the East Timor/Australia Timor Sea Treaty of 20 May 2002, Arbitral Tribunal: Professor Tullio Treves (ex-ITLOS, Italy, Chairman), Lord Collins of Mapesbury PC, FBA, Professor W. Michael Reisman at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1403 and http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21579074-timorese-leaders-push-better-deal-their-offshore-gas-fields-bugs-pipeline & http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3751479.htm & http://www.claytonutz.com/publications/edition/23_may_2013/20130523/east_timor_commences_proceedings_in_respect_of_greater_sunrise_revenue_sharing_treaty_with_australia.page  http://www.academia.edu/3847245/An_update_on_the_2013_Treaty_Arbitration_between_Timor_Leste_and_Australia & http://www.laohamutuk.org/Oil/Boundary/CMATSindex.htm

 

 

TWO U.S.-SUPPORTED ARBITRATIONS

WITH NONAPPEARING RESPONDENTS:

 

UNCLOS Annex VII Netherlands v. Russia Arctic Sunrise Arbitration:

ITLOS President Yanai (Japan) Appoints 4 UNCLOS Annex VII NL v. Russia Arbitrators on 10 January 2014: President Thomas Mensah (Ghana, ex-ITLOS President), Henry Burmester (Australia, Special Counsel and ex-Chief General Counsel of the Australian Government Solicitor, and ex-ANZ Counsel in Southern Bluefin Tuna), Janusz Symonides (Poland, ex-Polish Institute of International Affairs' and Prof. B.K.'s Director in Warsaw) and Alberto Székely Sánchez (Hungarian Mexico, ex-Mexico MFA's Legal Adviser), plus originally appointed by the NL on 4 October 2013: Alfred Soons (NL, exNILOS and Prof. B.K.'s Director) at: https://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_207_E.pdf & http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=264 and http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/32167/tribunal-appointed-arctic-sunrise-case/

           US Fears Russia in Arctic of 14 March 2014 at: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/14/opinion/slayton-rosen-russia-u-s-arctic/index.htmland Greenpeace Petitions Russian Court for Ship’s Release of 6 March 2014 at: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140306/188142869/Greenpeace-Petitions-Russian-Court-for-Ships-Release.html & http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=264 and http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/32167/tribunal-appointed-arctic-sunrise-case/

           Russia to Set Up Arctic Military Command by 2015of 17 February 2014 at: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140217/187620827/Russia-to-Set-Up-Arctic-Military-Command-by-2015.html and How to understand Russia’s Arctic strategy of 12 February 2014 at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/12/how-to-understand-russias-arctic-strategy/

           Russia to Refund Greenpeace Activists' Bail Moneyof 22 January 2014 at: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140122/186767551/Russia-to-Refund-Greenpeace-Activists-Bail-Money.html & http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2014/01/22/Russia-to-repay-Greenpeace-bail/UPI-25031390390517/ and  Russia Pardons Arctic Sunrise Crew, Issues Exit Visas of 26-27 December 2013 at: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131226/185945592/Russia-Pardons-Arctic-Sunrise-Crew-Issues-Exit-Visas.html & http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25524589 & http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131227/185980389/Greenpeace-Activists-Get-Exit-Visas-Begin-Leaving-Russia-.html & http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/12/26/world/europe/26reuters-russia-greenpeace.html 

           68th UNGA Adopts Two Annual Oceans Resolutions of 9 December 2013, UNCLOS Resolution by 115:1(Turkey):2 (Colombia, Venezuela) and UN Fish Stocks Resolution without vote, UN Doc.GA/11466 at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2013/ga11466.doc.htm and Statement of ITLOS President Yanai of 9 December 2013, in: ITLOS PR 206 of 11 Dec 2013 at: https://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_206_E.pdf

 

ITLOS NL v. Russia Arctic Sunrise(PMs) Order 20:2 of 22 November 2013, President Yanai (Japan) concurring, Declaration Anderson (NL ad Hoc), Joint Separate Opinion Wolfrum (Germany) & Kelly (Argentina), Separate Opinion Jesus (Cape Verde-UN), Separate Opinion Paik (Republic of Korea - comparison of Article 53 on nonappearance/default of the ICJ Statute with corresponding Article 28 of the ITLOS Statute and ITLOS Order's paras 9-11, 46-57, which undoubtedly  contributed to implementation of Article 28), Dissents Golitsyn (Russia-UN), Kulyk  (Ukraine) at: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=264 & http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_205_E.pdf  and UN-backed ITLOS orders Russia to release Greenpeace protest ship and Arctic 30 crew on receipt of a €3.6 million (£3m) bond from the Netherlands of 22 November 2013 at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46561&Cr=law+of+the+sea&Cr1 & http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25058338 & http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/32073/itlos-orders-release-greenpeace-activists/ & http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10468300/Moscow-told-to-let-bailed-Greenpeace-activists-leave-Russia.html &  http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/22/un-maritime-tribunal-tells-russia-to-free-arctic-30/ & http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/22/russia-tells-un-tribunal-to-stay-out-greenpeace-ship-case/ and in Dutch: Minister Timmermans is blij met de uitspraak van het Zeerechttribunaal [Foreign Minister Timmermans is Happy with the ITLOS' Ruling] of 22 November 2013 at: http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/3635075/tribunaal-eist-vrijlating-arctic-sunrise-en-bemanning.html & http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3549766/2013/11/22/Timmermans-blij-met-uitspraak-Zeerechttribunaal.dhtml & http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22080964/__Timmermans_blij_met_uitspraak__.html and Photo H.E. Judge Golitsyn on the Bench at: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/buitenland/131122_Greenpeace_Zeerechttribunaal  and Arctic Sunrise en bemanning moet worden vrijgelaten of 22 November 2013 at: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/22/zeerechttribunaal-arctic-sunrise-en-bemanning-moeten-worden-vrijgelaten/ & http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2686/Binnenland/article/detail/3549638/2013/11/22/Tribunaal-Rusland-moet-crew-en-schip-laten-gaan.dhtml &  http://nos.nl/artikel/578129-tribunaal-arctic-sunrise-moet-vrij.html & http://nos.nl/video/578233-greenpeace-vertrouwen-op-goede-afloop.html and Questions of Judges Wolfrum, Cot, Golitsyn, Akl and Bouguetaia, and Questions of Judge Golitsyn and Judge ad Hoc Anderson During Oral Hearing on 6 November 2013, ITLOS/PV13/C22/1, screen pages 12-13, and Golitsyn, pages 19, 20, and Anderson, page 30 at: http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/cases/case_no.22/ITLOS_PV13_C22_1_Eng.pdf and Response to Questions of 7 November 2013 at: http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/cases/case_no.22/Response_questions_en.pdf  via: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=264  

           via: http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=264 & http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=265&L=0 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_the_Arctic & http://en.ria.ru/trend/case_against_greenpeace_activists_09_2013/ & http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/From-peaceful-action-to-dramatic-seizure-a-timeline-of-events-since-the-Arctic-Sunrise-took-action-September-18-CET/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace_Arctic_Sunrise_ship_case & http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Greenpeace

 

 

UNCLOS Annex VII Philippines v. China South China Sea Arbitration:

 

ITLOS 191 of 25 April 2013 - Along with Original Appointments of Wolfrum (ITLOS/Germany, Philippines) and Pawlak (ITLOS, Poland, China), nowCot (ITLOS/France), Pinto (Sri Lanka, Chairman) and Soons (ex-NILOS, NL) Appointed to the UNCLOS Annex VII Philippines v. China Maritime Dispute Arbitration [whereas China non-appears, the best UNCLOS scholar worldwide Bernard H. Oxman (USA) is the leading Counsel of the Philippines]  at: http://www.dfa.gov.ph/index.php/newsroom/dfa-releases/7984-5-member-unclos-arbitral-tribunal-fully-constituted-with-appointment-by-itlos-president-of-remaining-three-judges & http://www.dfa.gov.ph/ & http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_191_E.pdf   http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=86 & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1529 & http://globalnation.inquirer.net/73119/intl-arbitration-panel-ready-to-hear-ph-case-against-china &  http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2013/04/26/935048/itlos-appoints-3-members-un-tribunal & http://www.rappler.com/nation/27482-itlos-un-tribunal-team-south-china-sea-case & http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2013/04/25/arbitral-panel-hear-philippines-case-vs-china-complete-279383 & http://www.interaksyon.com/article/60315/un-completes-arbitration-body-to-tackle-manilas-maritime-case-vs-china

           Former ITLOS President Thomas A. Mensah Appointed in Pinto's (Having Filipino Wife) Place as Annex VII Philippines v. China President of 21 June 2013 at: http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_197_E.pdf  http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31686/ghanaian-chair-south-china-sea-panel/ and The tribunal that will decide the Philippines' claims to parts of the South China Sea has laid down a timetable for the case, with China reiterating its refusal to participate in the proceedings of 29 August 2013 at: http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31850/south-china-sea-case-underway-without-china/ & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1529 &  http://globalnation.inquirer.net/73119/intl-arbitration-panel-ready-to-hear-ph-case-against-china & http://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_191_E.pdf  http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=86 ITLOS Judges Wolfrum and Mensah and Cot sit also together in Annex VII  Bangladesh v. India at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1376 and  they act together at the annual trainings of the Rhodes Oceans Academy since some 20 years at: http://www.virginia.edu/colp/rhodes-academy.html and Wolfrum edited Judge Mensah's splendid Liber Amicorum at: http://www.brill.com/law-sea-environmental-law-and-settlement-disputes

            Excellent Comments ofChina's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson on the Philippines' Efforts in Pushing for the Establishment of the Arbitral Tribunal in Relation to the Disputes between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea of 26 April 2013 at: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/xwfw/s2510/2535/t1035577.shtml via: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/

 

Speech delivered by Philippines Supreme Court's Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio of 6 March 2014 [as the March 30th submission of the Philippine position to the Arbitral Tribunal approaches] at:  http://www.interaksyon.com/article/82146/explainer---protecting-the-nations-marine-wealth-in-the-west-philippine-sea via: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=China_Sea

           U.S. Testimony  gives a  subtle guidance to Arbitrators! of unilateral Annex VII Philippines v. China  Tribunal [at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1529 ] on UNCLOS and the East and South China Seas Disputes of 5 February 2014 at: http://www.state.gov/p/eap/rls/rm/2014/02/221293.htm & http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/US_presses_Beijing_on_South_China_Sea_claims_999.html  and 10 February 2014 at: http://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/east-asia-beat/claim-02092014205453.html & http://globalnation.inquirer.net/98810/filipinos-back-ph-decision-to-confront-china and China Slams U.S. Testimony of 8-9 February 2014 at: http://news.yahoo.com/china-rejects-us-criticism-south-china-sea-032927438.html & http://globalnation.inquirer.net/98758/china-rejects-us-criticism-on-south-china-sea and Chinese FM slams Philippine president's comments on territorial disputes of 7 February 2014 at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-02/07/c_133098153.htm & http://globalnation.inquirer.net/98640/beijing-denounces-groundless-us-remarks-on-south-china-sea

           Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Hainan Province and the founder and President of the National Institute of South China Sea Studies Dr. Wu Shicun [log in to unmask] is the author of book on  “Solving Disputes for Regional Cooperation and Development in the South China Sea: a Chinese Perspective”, which was published by Chandos in November 2013 and which You can order directly at: http://www.nanhai.org.cn/en/newspic_show.asp?newsid=7571 &  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Solving-Disputes-Regional-Cooperation-Development/dp/1843346850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367140281&sr=8-1&keywords=shicun+wu You can also ask the book's copy from: Prof. Nong Hong, [log in to unmask] , Director of Research Center for Oceans Law and Policy, National Institute for South China Sea Studies http://www.nanhai.org.cn/  [Interview with Dr. Wu is quoted by Dupuy, 107 AJIL 130-131 (2013 No.1) in Agora listed infra]  and SuperStar 70-pages South China Sea Agora, including Chinese ITLOS Judge Zhiguo Gao and French Arbitrator Pierre-Marie Dupuy [log in to unmask]h et al. (with introduction by AJIL Co-Editors Bernie Oxman [log in to unmask]u and Lori Damrosch, their Report at: http://www.asil.org/pdfs/ajil/AJIL_EIC_CumulativeRept_2003-2012.pdf),  in 107 AJIL 95-163 (2013 No.1) at: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.5305/amerjintelaw.107.1.0095?uid=3738736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102114318791 & http://cil.nus.edu.sg/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Beckman-THE-UN-CONVENTION-ON-THE-LAW-OF-THE-SEA-AND-THE-MARITIME-DISPUTES-IN-THE-SCS.pdf & https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=107+A.J.I.L.+98&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=f2645ea05662c21958443a586b16797a 

            The South China Sea Arbitration: A Chinese Perspective
(edited by Bing Bing Jia and Stefan Talmon), Hart Publishing, January 2014 at:
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781849465472& http://www.ejiltalk.org/oups-debate-map-on-disputes-in-the-south-and-east-china-seas/comment-page-1/#comment-174190

 

           JUST COMPLETED ARBITRATIONS:

PCA Pakistan v. India Indus Waters  Kishenganga  Arbitration:

The Peace PalaceJudges Bruno Simma (ICJ/Germany) and Jan Paulsson (ICCA-Sweden, Paris): both appointed by Pakistan (17 May 2010) and Judges Peter Tomka (ICJ/Slovakia) and Lucius Caflisch (Switzerland): both appointed by India (16 June 2010), President Stephen M. Schwebel (exICJ/United States): appointed by UNSG Ban Ki-Moon (12 Oct 2010), Sir Franklin Berman and Prof. Howard S. Wheater: appointed respectively by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Rector of the Imperial College of Science & Technology in London (12 & 17 Dec 2010) at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1392

            Pakistan v. India Indus Waters Kishenganga (Merits) Final Award of 20 December 2013 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1392 & http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/32133/panel-issues-final-award-kashmir-dam-case/ & http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?nws_id=351&pag_id=1261&ac=view & https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151406139033666&set=a.10151406136628666.451656.95729648665&type=1&permPage=1  and Interestingly, the court admits that the value of the decided minimum flow is “somewhat severe in environmental terms [for Pakistan]…[but] in light of the right of India to develop hydroelectric power, and the associated right to operate the KHEP effectively, such an approach represents an appropriate balance between the needs of the environment and India’s right to power generation” of 22 December 2013 at: http://tribune.com.pk/story/648986/kishanganga-project-victory-claims-cloud-final-arbitration-award/ and The Final Award is not totally in Pakistan’s favour of 22 December 2013 at: http://www.dawn.com/news/1075591/india-told-to-ensure-water-flow-for-neelum-jhelum-project & http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-21/india/45443486_1_indus-waters-treaty-kishanganga-international-court and PCA  has allowed India to go ahead with construction of the 330-MW Kishenganga hydro-electric project in North Kashmir which was under dispute with Pakistan at: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/jk-india-gets-green-signal-for-construction-of-kishanganga-dam/440978-3.html & http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ica-gives-go-ahead-to-kishenganga-project/article5486957.ece & http://sandrp.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/international-court-asks-india-to-release-more-water-and-rejects-plea-to-re-interpret-february-verdict-on-kishanganga/ & http://www.firstpost.com/world/jk-water-dispute-india-registers-diplomatic-victory-over-pak-1301075.html & http://www.financialexpress.com/news/kishanganga-court-lets-india-build-operate-as-it-wants/1210373 and Analyzing the Kishenganga Final Award Seminar was chaired by Mirza Hamid Hassan, member IPS-National Academic Council and former Secretary Water & Power. The speakers and panelists included Dr. Gregory L Morris, Pakistan’s technical expert in Kishanganga case, Ashfaq Mehmood, Former Federal Secretary, Water and Power, DG-IPS Khalid Rahman, Shamila Mahmood, Senior Consultant, Pakistan Trans-Boundary Water Organization, and Cdr. (R) Azhar Ahmad, Senior IPS Associate. It was attended by a number of experts, researchers, diplomats, journalists and concerned officials of 17 January 2014 at: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/business/17-Jan-2014/ips-seminar-reviews-kishanganga-award-data-on-hydroelectric-use-and-agri-must-to-establish and Kishenganga Pictures at: https://www.google.nl/search?q=Kishanganga+Final+Award&sa=N&hl=nl&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=kffaUozVNqmX1AX46ICgCg&ved=0CFYQsAQ4FA&biw=1067&bih=571  via: https://www.google.nl/search?source=ig&hl=nl&rlz=1G1ACAWCNLNL360&q=Kishanganga&aq=f&oq=#hl=nl&q=Kishanganga+Final+Award&start=0

 

Indus Waters Kishenganga Arbitration (Pakistan v. India)

Court of Arbitration renders Partial Award of 18 February 2013 more  at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/shownews.asp?nws_id=351&pag_id=1261&ac=view &  http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=363  & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1392 & http://v2.volterrafietta.xguru.com/docs/PCA_2013.0220.pdf & http://www.volterrafietta.com/newsletter/news.enews_2013.07_b.asp & http://www.volterrafietta.com/news.articles.asp &  and see also: http://tribune.com.pk/story/429835/court-of-arbitration-closes-hearings-into-kishenganga-dam/ & http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31352/pakistan-fails-halt-kishenganga-hydro-project/ & http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/17/issue/13/indus-waters-kishenganga-arbitration-pakistan-v-india and Clarification or Interpretation of the Kishenganga Partial Award (India's Request) Decision of 13 May 2013 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1392 & https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151406139033666&set=a.10151406136628666.451656.95729648665&type=1&permPage=1

 

PCA Review Panel under South Pacific Convention: 

Review Panel Established on 21 May 2013 under the Convention on the Conservation and Management of the High Seas Fishery Resources of the South Pacific Ocean of 14 Nov 2009 [in force: 24 August 2012] - President Bernard H. Oxman (USA) and Panelists Kamil A. Bekyashev (Russia) and Valeria Carvajal (Chile)at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1520 & http://www.southpacificrfmo.org/establishment-of-review-panel/ and the 2009 Convention at: http://www.fpir.noaa.gov/IFD/ifd_sprfmo.html and Submissions of Chile, Taiwan, EU and New Zealand and Hearings (with Questions of Panelists) Held on 1 July 2013, followed by Findings and Recommendations of the Review Panel of 5 July 2013, President Oxman concurring, Separate O. Carvajal at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1520 & http://www.southpacificrfmo.org/objections/ & http://www.southpacificrfmo.org/review-panel-findings/  and e-mail: [log in to unmask] & http://www.law.miami.edu/facadmin/boxman.php & http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2709491/?site_locale=en_GB & http://www.asil.org/pdfs/sohnprogram1.pdf & http://www.asil.org/events-il-calendar.cfm?mode=archive&item=3411 & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1529 & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1526 & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1520 

 

UNCLOS Annex VII Argentina v. Ghana ARA Libertad Arbitration:

Argentina and Ghana bury the hatchet

Monday, 30 September 2013

Susana Ruiz Cerutti and Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong

Argentina has settled a year-long dispute with Ghana over the impounding of an Argentine naval frigate in a Ghanaian port of 30 September 2013 at: http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31930/argentina-ghana-bury-hatchet/ and Argentina/Ghana Agreement Concerning ARA Libertad Arbitration of 27 September 2013, providing that: "[o]n June 20, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ghana delivered a judgment which sets out the Ghanaian law with regard to the arrest of warships and which upholds the customary international law position on the immunity of warships. The Parties agreed that this, and other measures taken by Ghana, constitute sufficient satisfaction to discharge any injury occasioned by the injunction measure over the Argentine warship frigate ARA Libertad" and Judgment of the Supreme Court of Ghana of 20 June 2013 at: http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1526  & http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31930/argentina-ghana-bury-hatchet/

UNCLOS Annex VII  Argentina v. Ghana ARA Libertad  Arbitral Tribunal Constituted by ITLOS President Yanai (Japan) as follows: Former ICJ Judge and Current Iran-US Claims Tribunal Judge and PCA Pakistan v. India Kishenganga Arbitrator Bruno Simma (Germany, President; 2013 ASIL Hudson Medal at: http://www.asil.org/pdfs/awardsandhonors/ASIL%20Honors%20Committee%202012%20Report.pdf & http://www.asil.org/am13/ & http://www.globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31334/simma-honoured-asil/ ), as well as Former ICJ Judge and PCA North-South Sudan Abyei Boundary [ http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1306 ] Arbitrator Al-Khasawneh (Jordan, most likely favoured by Argentina) and multiple Former ICJ and ITLOS Judge ad Hoc and the World's prominently leading UNCLOS expert Bernard H. Oxman and the only UNCLOS expert par excellence on the Libertad Arbitral Tribunal (USA, most likely favoured by Ghana) [[Judges Simma and Al-Khasawneh are not included in Annex VII List at: http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?&src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XXI~6&chapter=21&Temp=mtdsg3&lang=en via: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/settlement_of_disputes/conciliators_arbitrators.htm ]], in:  ITLOS PR 189 of 5 February 2013 at: https://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/press_releases_english/PR_189_E.pdf   &  http://www.infobae.com/notas/695167-El-Tribunal-del-Mar-designo-tres-arbitros-para-se-expidan-sobre-la-Fragata.html & http://www.pca-cpa.org/showpage.asp?pag_id=1029 , http://www.infobae.com/notas/695167-El-Tribunal-del-Mar-designo-tres-arbitros-para-se-expidan-sobre-la-Fragata.html , http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=174  & http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Kelly & http://globalarbitrationreview.com/news/article/31790/argentine-frigate-claim-gets-underway/  via:  http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Libertad & http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Argentina & http://en.mercopress.com/current-edition See also citations from (including Prof. Oxman's views on warships) and commentaries upon Argentina v. Ghana ARA Libertad (Provisional Measures) Order of 15 December 2012 including in excellent Volterra-Fietta ARA Libertad Case Report of 21 December 2012 at:  http://www.volterrafietta.com/newsletter/vf.2012.1221.html & http://www.volterrafietta.com/news.clientalerts.asp & http://www.itlos.org/index.php?id=222 & http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/news/tdmnewsdigest.htm and Case Report by James Kraska, 107 AJIL 404-410 (2013 No.2)

 

Prof. Dr. Barbara Kwiatkowska

UNCLOS Independent Consultant [[log in to unmask]]

Former Deputy Director NILOS 1985-2009

NILOS Senior Fellow 2009-2012

at Utrecht University School of Law - The Netherlands

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