...This Committee also recognized the special situation of narrow or enclosed seas, saying: As stated by the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases between the Federal Republic of Germany/Denmark and the Federal Republic of Germany Netherlands, decided...

...is to be regretted that some people would appear to be seeking to construe dicta by the majority of the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases in the hope that that Judgment can be made to shed some respectability upon the territorial fallacy."...

...of the natural resources of the said area." Almost five years after the Convention came into force, the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases held that Articles l through 3 of the Convention "were then regarded as reflecting, or as crystallis:'...

...p. 8. 3 This conclusion finds support In the rationale of the Judgment Issued on Feb. 20, 1969. by the International Court of Justice In the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases. The principal reflection at the surface of the fundamental change from continental to oceanic crust...

...1956. It was included in the ILC 1956 draft.' " " Reliance is also placed on the recent holding by the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases that under the continental shelf doctrine as it exists in customary law a coastal state is entitled...

...8. 3 This conclusion finds support in the rationale of the Judgment issued on February 20 1909, by the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases. 45-553 O— 70 7 tlon, (2) greater depth to mantle, (3) greater thickness, (4) lesser density, (5)...

...groups later on in this Report. A brief reference, however, deserves to be made here to the decision of the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases, ICJ Reports 1969, p. 3. The cases out of •which the decision, given on 20 February 1969, arose were...

...the convention on the Continental Shelf, but also under customary international law, as declared by the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf cases (1969) ICJ Rep. 1. The Court referred (par. 19) to — . . . what the Court entertains no doubt is...

...8. "This conclusion finds support In the rationale of the Judgment Issued on February 20, 10G9, by the International Court of Justice In the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases. 46-553 O— 70 7 Hon, (2) greater depth to mantle, (3) greater thickness, (4) lesser density, (5) lower...

...submarine areas which are the "prolongation of its land territories." The quoted phrases are those of the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases. Those rights do not stop at the 200-meter line, but, as the Convention on the Continental Shelf aptly...