complement and reinforce the functions of the African Commission on
Human
and Peoples’ Rights”. The Applicant concludes therefrom that
all the
principles
enumerated
in the
enshrined
Charter
in the
Constitutive
will
completely
be
Act
and
the
meaningless
rights
if they
cannot be recognized and defended before a competent Court.
25. In conclusion:
The Applicant prays the Court to:
-
Declare that Article 34(6) of the Protocol is contrary to the spirit and
letter of the Constitutive Act and the Charter and is therefore null
and void.
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Declare that Article 34(6) is null and void because it is already so in
light of the jus cogens laws set out in the Charter.
B. THE SUBMISSIONS OF THE RESPONDENT
26.
Asa
preliminary objection, the Respondent
admissibility
of the
Application
on
the
raises the issue of the
grounds
that
it is baseless,
frivolous, vexatious and amounts to an abuse of process; the Applicant
has no capacity to seize the Court being a national of a State which has
not yet made the declaration contained in Article 34(6) of the Protocol; it
is neither party to the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the Charter
nor the Protocol. It cites Article 34 of the Vienna Convention on the Law
of Treaties in support of its allegations.’
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“A treaty does not create either obligations or rights for a third State without its consent,
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