La prétendue requête de la Bosnie-Herzégovine demandant la révision de l'arrêt du 26 février 2007 en l'affaire relative à l'Application de la convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide (Bosnie- Herzégovine c. Serbie) : le refus de la Cour d'inscrire l'affaire au rôle

In: Annuaire français de droit international, Band 63, Heft 1, S. 205-216

Abstract

On 23 February 2017, the International Court of Justice received a document entitled " Application for revision of the judgment of 26 February 2007 in the case concerning the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia)". The Court refused to enter this application for revision on the General List. The reasons for this refusal and the Court's position were explained by the President of the Court in a statement published in a press release of 9 March 2017. This contribution discusses the facts and justifications for the Court's position, concerning principally the issue of representation of a State in a given case, as well as the very unusual circumstances in which the Court refused to accept the request on the General List and communicated this publicly.