21 AEGEAN SEA (JUDGMENT) (a) disputes resulting from facts prior either to the accession of Greece or to the accession of another Party with whom Greece might have a dispute; (b) disputes concerning questions which by international law are solely within the domesticjurisdiction of States, and in particular disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece, including disputes relating toits rights of sovereignty over its ports and lines of communication." 49. The Greek Government maintains on various grounds that reservation (b) cannot be considered as covering the present dispute regarding the continental shelf of the Aegean Sea. One of those grounds consists of a contention that, when read correctly according to its terms, reservation (b) does not cover al1 disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece but only such as both relate to its territorial status and at the same time concern "questions which by international law are solely within the domestic jurisdiction of States". On this basis, it argues that, as the delimitation of the continental shelf cannot be considered a question "solely within the domesticjurisdiction of States", the subject-matter of the present dispute is not covered by reservation (b). Since this ground is based on an essentially grammatical interpretation of the reservation, the Court will examine it first. 50. The grammatical argument hinges upon the interpretation of the words "et, notamment," ("and in particular") which precede the reference to "les différends ayant trait au statut territorial de la Grèce (disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece)". Those words are said by the Greek Government to make it plain that the reference to "disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece" was not intended to designate an autonomous category of disputes additional to the category of disputes concerning matters solely within domestic jurisdiction. The effect of those words, according to the Greek Government, is to show that in reservation (b) "disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece" are included within the description of disputes concerning matters solely within domestic jurisdiction, and are there mentioned merely as a particular example of such disputes which it was desired to emphasize. 51. In support of this interpretation of the words "et, notamment," the Greek Government invokes the authority of Robert's Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française (Vol. IV) which explains "notamment" as meaning "d'une manière qui mérite d'être notée" (in a way which deserves to be noted), and adds in brackets: "sert leplus souvent à attirer I'attention sur un ou plusieurs objets particuliers faisant partie d'un ensembleprécédemment désigné ou sous-entendu" (most often used to draw attention to one or more particular objects forming part of a previously