A fair outcome by the court will end the sole remaining border issue which compromises our bilateral relations.

The ICJ is expected to make a ruling on the dispute in mid 2013.

Before reporting the different viewpoints, a brief background on the legal implications of the dispute and sentences is necessary.

However, the Court did not address the issue of the effects of armed conflict on validity or suspension in the Nicaragua case.

Finally, on 12 July 2005, the Chamber of the Court formed to deal with the case concerning the Frontier Dispute (Benin Niger) rendered its Judgment.

In a brief submitted to the Court by the Government of Solomon Islands, the question of the effects of armed conflict on treaties was examined thoroughly.

The Nuclear Weapons opinion is the closest that the Court has come to examining the effects of armed conflict on treaties, including significant discussion of the effect of armed conflict on both human rights and environmental treaties.

Moreover, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has strongly questioned the distinction between international and non international armed conflict

App. 1993) (choosing to deny protection of the treaty through a reading of the treaty language itself rather than ruling on the effect of armed conflict on treaties).

The Court noted in that respect that it was not contested that the dispute was triggered by the decisions of the German courts in the aforementioned case.

In its advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, the Court cited international humanitarian law as the prime example of treaties applicable in armed conflict.

As in the Oil Platforms case, the Court considered the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation to be in force notwithstanding the armed conflict between the two parties and considered potential breaches of the Treaty in detail.

30. However, the Court is of the view that the issue is not whether the treaties relating to the protection of the environment are or are not applicable during an armed conflict, but rather whether the obligations stemming from these treaties were intended to be obligations of total restraint during military conflict.

More ominous, however, is the sovereignty dispute between Japan and China.

What the court has done is to craft a solution that no political process could have arrived at independently, but which takes the dispute off the streets.

The Supreme Court of Seychelles considered the effect of armed conflict on treaties in a 1973 case involving the extradition of an Italian arrested in Seychelles.

It is precisely with a view to helping the parties to a dispute to resolve it through legal means, through the Court, that in 1989 the Secretary General's Trust Fund was created to assist States in the settlement of disputes.

The internal armed conflict

In one respect, then, the dispute appears set to follow a path similar to the US Japan case.

The whole world knows that there is a dispute.

Reconciling Hamas and Fatah

The effect of armed conflict on environmental treaties was also a significant source of discussion in the course of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on nuclear weapons, both in the submissions of the parties and in the opinion of the Court.

But the deal has not stuck, and the conflict has continued.

The key dispute is over Cyprus.

The root of the dispute was fundamental differences of ownership.

NGOs and situations of conflict

(b) Effects of armed conflicts on treaties

The outbreak of an armed conflict does not affect the competence of the parties to the armed conflict to conclude treaties in accordance with the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

Treaties applicable to situations of armed conflict in accordance with their express provisions are operative in case of an armed conflict, without prejudice to the conclusion of lawful agreements between the parties to the armed conflict involving suspension or waiver of the relevant treaties.

What do you think is the best way to settle this conflict?

This conflict exists globally.

The two nations with most economic and political stakes in the conflict are Rwanda and Uganda.

And Egyptian Mohamed El Dahshan joins the fray, saying

All of the parties to the conflict are to blame

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

That was not the case in the present dispute.

That was not the case in the dispute at hand.

The first was the public debate on constitutional changes that would permit an immediate re election of the President.

The rules regulate what occurs during conflict.

(b) The nature and extent of the armed conflict in question.

International watercourses and installations in time of armed conflict

Categorization of the effect of armed conflict on treaties

Some delegations expressed preference for the third preambular paragraph in the Chairman's text, which employed the terms conflict and post conflict situations .

The Court, however, deemed that none of the grounds for setting aside awards laid down in 1059 (2) ZPO, based on article 34 (2) MAL, could be applied to the dispute.