Previous Year Question(s): Q. What are the various steps involved for concluding an international treaty and brining it into force.     Important Observations: Under international law, the law and practices pertaining to treaties is governed by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969. Although India is not a Part to the Convention, it … Continue reading Steps Involved for Concluding an International Treaty

From the creation of the United Nations some 12 States had unsuccessfully applied for admission. Their applications were rejected by the Security Council in consequence of a veto imposed by one or other of the States which are permanent members of the Council. A proposal was then made for the admission of all the candidates … Continue reading Conditions for Admission to the UN

On 8 May 2017, India filed an Application instituting proceedings against Pakistan in respect of a dispute concerning alleged violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963 “in the matter of the detention and trial of an Indian national, Mr. Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav”, who had been sentenced to death by a military court … Continue reading Kulbhushan Jadhav Case (India v. Pakistan)

By a Special Agreement notified to the Court in 1978, the ICJ was asked to determine what principles and rules of international law were applicable to the delimitation as between Tunisia and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya of the respective areas of continental shelf appertaining to each. After considering arguments as well as evidence based on … Continue reading Continental Shelf (Tunisia/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

By a letter dated 19 December 1994, filed in the Registry on 6 January 1995, the Secretary-General of the United Nations officially communicated to the Registry a decision taken by the General Assembly, by its resolution 49/75 K adopted on 15 December 1994, to submit to the Court, for advisory opinion, the following question : … Continue reading Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

The granting of diplomatic asylum in the Colombian Embassy at Lima, on 3 January 1949, to a Peruvian national, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, a political leader accused of having instigated a military rebellion, was the subject of a dispute between Peru and Colombia which the Parties agreed to submit to the Court. The … Continue reading Colombia vs. Peru