-4The Court has jurisdiction to entertain the claims made by Ukraine under CERD and
Ukraine’s Application with regard to those claims is admissible.
JUDGMENT
Present:
President YUSUF; Vice-President XUE; Judges TOMKA, ABRAHAM, BENNOUNA,
CANÇADO TRINDADE, DONOGHUE, GAJA, SEBUTINDE, BHANDARI, ROBINSON,
CRAWFORD,
SALAM,
IWASAWA;
Judges ad hoc POCAR,
SKOTNIKOV;
Registrar GAUTIER.
In the case concerning the application of the International Convention for the Suppression of
the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination,
between
Ukraine,
represented by
H.E. Ms Olena Zerkal, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine,
as Agent;
H.E. Mr. Vsevolod Chentsov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to
the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
as Co-Agent;
Mr. Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School,
member of the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia,
Mr. Jean-Marc Thouvenin, Professor at the University Paris Nanterre, Secretary-General of
the Hague Academy of International Law,
Ms Marney L. Cheek, Covington & Burling LLP, member of the Bar of the District of
Columbia,
Mr. Jonathan Gimblett, Covington & Burling LLP, member of the Bars of the District of
Columbia and Virginia,
Mr. David M. Zionts, Covington & Burling LLP, member of the Bars of the Supreme Court
of the United States and the District of Columbia,
as Counsel and Advocates;