Advisory Opinion



Bullet7.gif (140 bytes)  ADVISORY OPINION OF 9 JULY 2004

The Advisory Opinion was drafted in French and English (the Court’s two official languages), the French text being authoritative

The Opinion having been requested by the United Nations General Assembly, it has been translated by the UN Secretariat into the Organisation’s other four official languages (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish). The texts of these translations, as published in General Assembly documents, are reproduced below for users’ convenience in PDF format.