- 48 (5) By fifteen votes to one,
Finds that it has jurisdiction, on the basis of Article 22 of the International Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, to entertain the claims made by Ukraine under
this Convention, and that the Application in relation to those claims is admissible.
IN FAVOUR:
President Yusuf; Vice-President Xue; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Bennouna,
Cançado Trindade, Donoghue, Gaja, Sebutinde, Bhandari, Robinson, Crawford, Salam,
Iwasawa; Judge ad hoc Pocar;
AGAINST:
Judge ad hoc Skotnikov.
Done in French and in English, the French text being authoritative, at the Peace Palace,
The Hague, this eighth day of November 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 Ukraine
and the Government of the Russian Federation, respectively.
(Signed) Abdulqawi Ahmed YUSUF,
President.
(Signed) Philippe GAUTIER,
Registrar.
Vice-President XUE appends a dissenting opinion to the Judgment of the
Judges TOMKA and CANÇADO TRINDADE append separate opinions to the Judgment of the
Judges DONOGHUE and ROBINSON append declarations to the Judgment of the
Judge ad hoc POCAR appends a separate opinion to the Judgment of the
Judge ad hoc SKOTNIKOV appends a dissenting opinion to the Judgment of the Court.
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