- 17C. Objections based on Article 40 of the Rules
1). Objections to the admissibility of the application drawn from
the
incompatibility of the application with the Constitutive Act of the African Union
and the Charter.
60. Rule 40(2) of the Rules provides as follows: "to be compatible with the Constitutive
Act of the African Union and the Charter".
61. The Respondent State claims that the name mentioned in the Application, not
being that of Burkina Faso, a State Party to the Constitutive Act of the African
Union and the Charter, the Application should be declared inadmissible as it is
inconsistent with Rule 40 (2) of the Rules, for being incompatible with the Charter.
62.
The Court notes in this regard that the argument of the Respondent State rests
on the allegation that the name on the Application, which is "People's Democratic
Republic of Burkina Faso", does not refer to it. As the Court has already decided, in
the present case, the Respondent State is Burkina Faso. The Application is not
therefore incompatible with the Constitutive Act of the African Union or the Charter.
63.
The Court therefore holds that the Application cannot be deemed inadmissible in
this case on the grounds of the alleged failure to comply with the provisions of Rule 40
(2) of the Rules.
2). Objection based on the nature of the language used in the Application
64.
Rule 40(3) of the Rules provides that [the Application] "must not contain
disparaging and insulting language".
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