PULP MILLS (JUDGMENT)
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JUDGMENT
Present : Vice-President TOMKA, Acting President ; Judges KOROMA,
AL-KHASAWNEH, SIMMA, ABRAHAM, KEITH, SEPÚLVEDA-AMOR,
BENNOUNA, SKOTNIKOV, CANÇADO TRINDADE, YUSUF, GREENWOOD ;
Judges ad hoc TORRES BERNÁRDEZ, VINUESA ; Registrar COUVREUR.
In the case concerning pulp mills on the River Uruguay,
between
the Argentine Republic,
represented by
H.E. Ms Susana Ruiz Cerutti, Ambassador, Legal Adviser to the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship,
as Agent ;
H.E. Mr. Horacio A. Basabe, Ambassador, Director of the Argentine Institute for Foreign Service, former Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Member of the Permanent
Court of Arbitration,
H.E. Mr. Santos Goñi Marenco, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to
the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
as Co-Agents ;
Mr. Alain Pellet, Professor at the University of Paris Ouest, NanterreLa Défense, member and former Chairman of the International Law Commission, associate member of the Institut de droit international,
Mr. Philippe Sands, Q.C., Professor of International Law at University College London, Barrister at Matrix Chambers, London,
Mr. Marcelo Kohen, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, associate member
of the Institut de droit international,
Ms Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Professor of International Law at the
University of Geneva,
Mr. Alan Béraud, Minister at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic to the
European Union, former Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
International Trade and Worship,
Mr. Daniel Müller, Researcher at the Centre de droit international de
Nanterre (CEDIN), University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre-La Défense,
as Counsel and Advocates ;
Mr. Homero Bibiloni, Federal Secretary for the Environment and Sustainable Development,
as Governmental Authority ;
Mr. Esteban Lyons, National Director of Environmental Control, Secretariat of the Environment and Sustainable Development,
Mr. Howard Wheater, Ph.D. in Hydrology from Bristol University, Professor of Hydrology at Imperial College and Director of the Imperial College
Environment Forum,
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