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International Court of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Case concerning the Aerial Incident of November 7, 1954 (United States v. Soviet Union): On July 7, 1959, an application instituting proceedings against die Soviet Union was filed in the Registry of the Court by the government of the United States. In its application the government of the United States alleged that on November 7, 1954, one of its aircraft was attacked and destroyed over the Japanese island of Hokkaido by fighter aircraft of the Soviet Union. It requested the Court to find that the Soviet Union was liable for the damages caused and to award damages in the sum of $756,604. It also stated that it had submitted to the Court's jurisdiction for the purposes of this case and that it was open to the government of the Soviet Union to do likewise. In accordance with Article 40 of the Statute of the Court, the application was thereupon communicated by the Registry to the government of the Soviet Union.

Type
International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1959 , pp. 630 - 634
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1959

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1 International Court of Justice, Communiqué No. 59/34, 07 7, 1959Google Scholar ; International Court of Justice, Application Instituting Proceedings filed in the Registry of the Court on July 7, 1959, Case concerning the Aerial Incident of November 7, 1954 (United States t. Soviet Union).

2 International Court of Justice, Communiqué No. 59/35, 08 18, 1959Google Scholar . For previous information on the case, see International Organization, Spring 1958 (Vol. 12, No. 2), p. 208CrossRefGoogle Scholar .

3 International Court of Justice, Communiqué No. 59/37, September 11, 1959. For previous information on the case, see International Organization, Spring 1958 (Vol. 12, No. 2), p. 208CrossRefGoogle Scholar .

4 International Court of Justice, Communiqué No. 59/36, 08 20, 1959Google Scholar . For previous information on the question, see International Organization, Spring 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 2), p. 308CrossRefGoogle Scholar , and ibid., Summer 1959 (Vol. 13, No. 3), p. 465.

5 Case concerning Sovereignty over certain Frontier Land, Judgment of June 20, 1939: I.C.J. Reports 1939, p. 209. For information on the application instituting proceedings, see International Organization, Spring 1958 (Vol. 12, No. 2), p. 208CrossRefGoogle Scholar .

6 International Court of Justice, Communiqué No. 59/33, 06 20, 1959Google Scholar .