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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Vladimir-Djuro Degan*
Affiliation:
Rijeka University, Zagreb, Croatia; Institut de Droit International
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Abstract

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Correspondents' Agora: UN Membership of the Former Yugoslavia
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1993

References

1 Yehuda Z. Blum, UN Membership of the “New” Yugoslavia: Continuity or Break?, 86 AJIL 830, 833 (1992).

2 Id. at 830, 833.

3 Conference for Peace in Yugoslavia, Arbitration Commission Opinion No. 1, para. 3, reprinted in 31 ILM 1494, 1497 (1992).

4 Id., para. 2(a), 31 ILM at 1496.

5 Interlocutory Decision (July 4, 1992), reprinted in 31 ILM at 1518, 1518–19.

6 Id., para. 10, 31 ILM at 1521.

7 Id., para. 3, 31 ILM at 1520 (quoting Nottebohm case (Liech. v. Guat.) (Preliminary Objection), 1953 ICJ Rep. 111, 119 (Judgment of Nov. 18) (with minor variations from the Court’s translation)).

8 Id., para. 2, 31 ILM at 1520.

9 Id., 31 ILM at 1520.

10 Id., para. 6, 31 ILM at 1520.

11 In the original French, “la Commission ne saurait … se prononcer qu’en droit.”

12 Interlocutory Decision, supra note 5, para. 9, 31 ILM at 1521.

13 Hence, “the line, as regards actual effect (although not necessarily of legal obligation), between a judgment and an advisory opinion is thin.” 2 Lassa Oppenheim, International Law: A Treatise 66 (Hersch Lauterpacht ed., 7th ed. 1952). “Advisory opinions, though not binding, nevertheless have authority as statements of law.” Gerald Fitzmaurice, The Law and Procedure of the International Court of Justice: International Organizations and Tribunals, 1952 Brit. Y.B. Int’l L. 1, 54 (emphasis omitted).

14 Opinion No. 8, para. 4, reprinted in 31 ILM at 1521, 1523.

15 Opinion No. 9, para. 1, reprinted in 31 ILM at 1523, 1524.

16 Id., para. 4, 31 ILM at 1525.

17 Opinion No. 10, para. 5, reprinted in 31 ILM at 1525, 1526.

18 Id., para. 4, 31 ILM at 1526.

19 In the original French, “normes impératives du droit international général.”

20 Opinion No. 10, para. 4, 31 ILM at 1526.

21 Guidelines on the Recognition of New States in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, European Political Cooperation Press Release 129/91, reprinted in 31 ILM at 1486, 1487.

22 Declaration on Yugoslavia, id., 31 ILM at 1485, 1486.

23 The Arbitration Commission was asked to advise the European Community on the fulfillment by each applicant state of these conditions. The views of the commission were expressed in the following opinions: No. 4 on Bosnia-Hercegovina; No. 5 on Croatia; No. 6 on Macedonia; and No. 7 on Slovenia. All these opinions were issued on January 11, 1992, and are reprinted in 31 ILM at 1501–17.

24 See Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties, Aug. 22, 1978, Art. 4(1), reprinted in 17 ILM 1488 (1978).

25 Admission of a State to the United Nations (Charter, Art. 4), 1948 ICJ Rep. 57, 62 (Advisory Opinion of May 28).

1 Yehuda Z. Blum, UN Membership of the “New” Yugoslavia: Continuity or Break?, 86 AJIL 830 (1992).