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INTERNATIONAL COURT OF
JUSTICE Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ The Hague, Netherlands Tel.:
+31 (0)70 302 2323 Fax: +31 (0)70 364 9928 Website: www.icj-cij.org Press Release Unofficial
No. 2013/14
12 June 2013
Public hearings in the
case concerning Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan: New
Zealand intervening) Public admission and media accreditation Live and
on-demand webcasts
THE HAGUE, 12 June 2013.
As announced in Press Release 2013/7 issued on 11 April 2013, the International
Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations,
will hold public hearings in the case concerning Whaling in the Antarctic
(Australia v. Japan: New Zealand intervening) from Wednesday 26 June to Tuesday
16 July 2013, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court.
1. Access for members of
the Diplomatic Corps
Owing to the limited
number of seats available in the Great Hall of Justice, members of the
Diplomatic Corps wishing to attend the hearings are kindly asked to inform the
Information Department before midnight on Sunday 23 June 2013, by e-mail
to confirmation@icj-cij.org.
Diplomatic missions are kindly requested to limit their delegations to two
persons.
Should members of the
Diplomatic Corps decide at any point not to attend a hearing for which they
have reserved a seat/s, they are kindly requested to inform the Information
Department so that their seat/s can be reallocated.
2. Access for media
representatives
Media representatives are
subject to an online accreditation procedure, details of which can be found in
the Media Advisory attached to this Press Release. The accreditation procedure
will close at midnight on Sunday 23 June 2013.
3. Access for members of
the public
Owing to the very limited
number of seats available in the Great Hall of Justice, priority access will be
given to members of the delegations of States that are parties to the case, and
members of the Diplomatic Corps.
A small number of seats
will be allocated daily to members of the public on a first come first served
basis. There will be no advance registration procedure, all previously
sent requests to attend these hearings will be ignored.
4. Live and on-demand webcasts
We strongly advise members
of the public to watch the hearings on the Court’s website, where they will be
broadcast live and in full (www.icj-cij.org,
under the heading “Multimedia”), or on the online television channel “UN Web TV
(http://webtv.un.org/)”.
The hearings will
subsequently also be available as a recorded webcast (VOD) on the United
Nations Web TV website (http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/).
5. Schedule for and
information on the hearings
The schedule for the
hearings is available on the Calendar on the Court’s website (www.icj-cij.org). Verbatim records of the hearings
will be published daily on the Court’s website (with translations to follow as
soon as practicable thereafter). On the final day of the hearings, a Press
Release will be issued presenting the submissions of the Parties (the Court’s
press releases do not constitute official documents).
6. History of the
proceedings
The history of the
proceedings can be found in Press Release No. 2013/7 of 11 April 2013, which is
available on the Court’s website.
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