The seat of the ICJ is at The Hague, but sessions may be held elsewhere when the court considers it desirable to do so.
Some Peruvians were disappointed that the ICJ didn't accept their claim in full.
In 1993 the Bosnian government appealed to the ICJ, accusing Serbia (then still officially the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) of genocide.
All members of the UN are parties to the statute of the ICJ, and nonmembers may also become parties.
Chilean officials are resigned to a Solomonic judgment from the ICJ, whose ruling is expected in mid-2013.
In all but two, it has fully complied with the ICJ's rulings, even when it has lost".
IMPLICATIONS of the ICJ's ruling that Kosovo's declaration of independence is legal are still sinking in.
In a nod to the advisory opinion handed down by the ICJ in 2004, the Israeli Supreme Court said that the security wall that Israel was building in the West Bank must not run through five Arab villages that were threatened to be divided by the structure; earlier the ICJ had stated that the wall stood in violation of international law.
Rejecting the ruling as politically motivated, Israel argued that the ICJ had failed to take into account the reason for building the fence: Palestinian terrorist attacks.
— Ben Lewis (@ben_lewis10) March 31, 2014 The 'vibe' of the #ICJ decision so far- #Whaling can be done for scientific research... but Japan doing on too big a scale.
For a start, and most obviously, by trying to stop Serbia from going to the ICJ it rather suggests that many states maintain real doubts over the legality of their decision to recognise Kosovo.
