INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

REPORTS OF JUDGMENTS,
ADVISORY OPINIONS AND ORDERS

CASE CONCERNING
LEGALITY OF USE OF FORCE

(YUGOSLAVIA v. UNITED KINGDOM)

ORDER OF 21 FEBRUARY 2001

2001

COUR INTERNATIONALE DE JUSTICE

RECUEIL DES ARRETS,
AVIS CONSULTATIFS ET ORDONNANCES

AFFAIRE RELATIVE A LA LICEITE
DE L’EMPLOI DE LA FORCE

(YOUGOSLAVIE c. ROYAUME-UNI)

ORDONNANCE DU 21 FEVRIER 2001
Official citation:

Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia v. United Kingdom),
Order of 21 February 2001, I. C.J. Reports 2001, p. 34

Mode officiel de citation:

Licéité de l'emploi de la force (Yougoslavie c. Royaume-Uni),
ordonnance du 21 février 2001, C.I J. Recueil 2001, p. 34

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INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

2001 YEAR 2001
21 February ;
General List
No. 113 21 February 2001

CASE CONCERNING
LEGALITY OF USE OF FORCE

(YUGOSLAVIA v. UNITED KINGDOM)

ORDER

Present: Vice-President Sui, Acting President; President GUILLAUME;
Judges ODA, BEDJAOUI, RANJEVA, HERCZEGH, FLEISCHHAUER,
KOROMA, VERESHCHETIN, HIGGINS, PARRA-ARANGUREN,
KOOLMANS, REZEK, AL-KHASAWNEH, BUERGENTHAL; Registrar
COUVREUR.

The International Court of Justice,

Composed as above,

After deliberation,

Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to
Articles 44 and 79 of the Rules of Court,

Having regard to the Order of 30 June 1999, whereby the Court fixed
5 January 2000 and 5 July 2000 as the time-limits for the filing, respec-
tively, of a Memorial of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a
Counter-Memorial of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland,

Having regard to the preliminary objections to jurisdiction and admis-
sibility filed by the United Kingdom on 4 July 2000,

Having regard to the Order of 8 September 2000, whereby the Vice-
President of the Court, Acting President, fixed 5 April 2001 as the time-

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“limit within which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia might present a
written statement of its observations and submissions on the preliminary
objections made by the United Kingdom;

Whereas, by letter dated 18 January 2001, received in the Registry on
19 January 2001 by facsimile, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia referred inter alia to recent diplomatic
initiatives and requested the Court, for reasons stated in that letter, “to
grant a stay of the proceedings or .. . to extend the time limit for the
submission of observations of Yugoslavia, for a period of twelve months”;
and whereas, on receipt of that letter, the Registrar transmitted a copy
thereof to the Agent of the United Kingdom;

Whereas, by letter dated 26 January 2001, received in the Registry on
the same day by facsimile, the Agent of the United Kingdom informed
the Court that his Government was not opposed to a stay of proceedings
or, if a stay was not possible, to an extension of the time-limit for the
filing of the observations and submissions of Yugoslavia on the prelimi-
nary objections of the United Kingdom,

Taking account of the agreement of the Parties and of the circum-
stances of the case,

Extends to 5 April 2002 the time-limit within which the Federal Repub-
lic of Yugoslavia may present a written statement of its observations and
submissions on the preliminary objections made by the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and

Reserves the subsequent procedure for further decision.

Done in English and in French, the English text being authoritative, at
the Peace Palace, The Hague, this twenty-first day of February, two
thousand and one, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Government of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, respectively.

(Signed) Sui Jiuyong,
Vice-President.

(Signed) Philippe COUVREUR,
Registrar.