COUR INTERNATIONALE DE JUSTICE
RECUEIL DES ARRÊTS,
AVIS CONSULTATIFS ET ORDONNANCES
DIFFÉREND CONCERNANT LE STATUT
ET L’UTILISATION DES EAUX DU SILALA
(CHILI c. BOLIVIE)
ORDONNANCE DU 18 JUIN 2019
2019
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
REPORTS OF JUDGMENTS,
ADVISORY OPINIONS AND ORDERS
DISPUTE OVER THE STATUS
AND USE OF THE WATERS OF THE SILALA
(CHILE v. BOLIVIA)
ORDER OF 18 JUNE 2019
Mode officiel de citation :
Différend concernant le statut et l’utilisation des eaux du Silala
(Chili c. Bolivie), ordonnance du 18 juin 2019,
C.I.J. Recueil 2019, p. 411
Official citation :
Dispute over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala
(Chile v. Bolivia), Order of 18 June 2019,
I.C.J. Reports 2019, p. 411
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18 JUIN 2019
ORDONNANCE
DIFFÉREND CONCERNANT LE STATUT
ET L’UTILISATION DES EAUX DU SILALA
(CHILI c. BOLIVIE)
DISPUTE OVER THE STATUS
AND USE OF THE WATERS OF THE SILALA
(CHILE v. BOLIVIA)
18 JUNE 2019
ORDER
411
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
YEAR 2019
2019
18 June
18 June 2019 General List
No. 162
DISPUTE OVER THE STATUS
AND USE OF THE WATERS OF THE SILALA
(CHILE v. BOLIVIA)
ORDER
Present: President Yusuf; Vice-President Xue; Judges Tomka, Abraham,
Cançado Trindade, Donoghue, Gaja, Sebutinde, Bhandari,
Robinson, Gevorgian, Salam, Iwasawa; 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 Article 80,
paragraph 2, of the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the Application filed in the Registry of the Court on
6 June 2016, whereby the Government of the Republic of Chile (herein-
after “Chile”) instituted proceedings against the Plurinational State of
Bolivia (hereinafter “Bolivia”) with regard to a dispute concerning the
status and use of the waters of the Silala,
Having regard to the Order of 1 July 2016, whereby the Court fixed
3 July 2017 and 3 July 2018 as the time-limits for the filing of the Memo-
rial of Chile and the Counter-Memorial of Bolivia respectively,
Having regard to the Memorial duly filed by Chile within the time-limit
thus fixed,
Having regard to the Order dated 23 May 2018, whereby the Court, at
the request of Bolivia, extended until 3 September 2018 the time-limit for
the filing of the Counter-Memorial of the Respondent,
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status and use of the silala (order 18 VI 19) 412
Having regard to the Counter-Memorial duly filed by Bolivia within the
time-limit as extended, and the three counter-claims contained therein,
Having regard to the Order dated 15 November 2018, whereby the
Court, in the absence of any objection by Chile to the admissibility of
Bolivia’s counter-claims, did not consider that it was required to rule defi-
nitively on the question of whether the conditions set forth in Article 80,
paragraph 1, of the Rules of Court had been fulfilled, and directed the
submission of a Reply by Chile and a Rejoinder by Bolivia, limited to the
Respondent’s counter-claims, fixing 15 February 2019 and 15 May 2019
as the respective time-limits for the filing of those pleadings,
Having regard to the Reply filed by Chile and the Rejoinder filed by
Bolivia within the time-limits thus fixed;
Whereas, by a letter dated 4 June 2019, the Agent of Chile informed the
Court that her Government “wishe[d] to avail itself of the right to submit
an additional pleading on the counter-claims” and that it would need
three months for the preparation of this pleading; and whereas, by a letter
dated 7 June 2019, the Agent of Bolivia stated that his Government had
no objection to the request made by Chile to present an additional plea-
ding on Bolivia’s counter-claims;
Taking account of the agreement of the Parties,
Authorizes the submission by the Republic of Chile of an additional
pleading relating solely to the counter-claims of the Plurinational State of
Bolivia;
Fixes 18 September 2019 as the time-limit for the filing of that pleading;
and
Reserves the subsequent procedure for further decision.
Done in French and in English, the French text being authoritative, at
the Peace Palace, The Hague, this eighteenth day of June, two thousand
and nineteen, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the archives
of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of the Repu-
blic of Chile and the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia,
respectively.
(Signed) Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf,
President.
(Signed) Philippe Couvreur,
Registrar.
