1931. It follows that in interpreting and applying reservation (b) with respect to the present dispute the Court has to take account of the evolution which has occurred in the rules of international law concerning a coastal State's rights of exploration and exploitation over the continental shelf. The Court is, therefore, now called upon to examine whether, taking into account the developments in international law regarding the continental shelf, the expression "disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece" should or should not be understood as comprising within it disputes relating to the geographical-the spatial-extent of Greece's rights over the continental shelf in the Aegean Sea. 81. In order to determine whether the present dispute falls within the scope of reservation (b), the Court must first clarify the question that calls for decision. The question is not, as Greece seems to assume, whether continental shelf rights are territorial rights or are comprised within the expression "territorial status". The real question for decision is, whether the dispute is one which relates to the territorial status of Greece. Accordingly, a linguistic argument presented by the Greek Government, and based on the definitions of the words "statut" (status) and "territorial" in the Dictionnaire de la terminologie du droit international, appears to the Court to be only of marginal interest. No doubt, it is true the expression territorial status is commonly used in international law with reference to a legal condition or régime of a territory; but although the expression, as Article 39, paragraph 2, of the General Act itself indicates, denotes a category or concept covering clearly specified subject-matters, it is not an expression which can be said to have rigid legal connotations. On the contrary, the Court considers it to be a generic expression which comprises within its meanings various legal conditions and relations of territory. The answer to the question whether any given matter is properly to be considered as relating to the territorial status of a State must, therefore, depend on the particular circumstances of the case. 82. The subject-matter of the present dispute, as appears from the first two-and principal-submissions in the Application, would require the Court to decide two questions: (1) whether certain Greek islands in the Aegean Sea "as part of the territory of Greece, are entitled to the portion of the continental shelf which appertains to them according to the applicable principles and rules of international law"; (2) what is "the course of the boundary (or boundaries) between the portions of the continental shelf appertaining to Greece and Turkey in