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manual and disseminating it to the<br />

Contras<br />

8. Attacks on Nicaraguan territory<br />

and declaration of a trade<br />

embargo<br />

9. Attacks on Nicaraguan territory<br />

and declaration of a trade<br />

embargo<br />

91<br />

certain contrary<br />

acts<br />

Depriving of its<br />

object and<br />

purpose the<br />

Treaty of<br />

Friendship,<br />

Commerce and<br />

Navigation<br />

between the<br />

United States of<br />

America and the<br />

Republic of<br />

Nicaragua (1956)<br />

Breach of<br />

Obligations under<br />

the Treaty of<br />

Friendship,<br />

Commerce and<br />

Navigation<br />

between the<br />

United States of<br />

America and the<br />

Republic of<br />

Nicaragua (1956)<br />

Principles of<br />

Humanitarian<br />

Law<br />

by 14 to 1 *<br />

Treaty Law In favour<br />

by 12 to 3<br />

Treaty Law In favour<br />

by 12 to 3<br />

Table 2-5 Decision of the ICJ in Regard to the Military and Paramilitary Activities<br />

(Nicaragua vs US) Case 1986. (Author’s table)<br />

The Court further decided (by 12 votes to 3) that the US should refrain from all acts that<br />

the Court had ruled in breach of legal obligations and (by 12 to 2 in the case of breaches<br />

of Customary International Law and 14 to 1 in the case of the Treaty of Friendship) that<br />

the US should make reparations to Nicaragua, the amounts eventually estimated by an<br />

independent international commission to be set between $17-18 billion. 78 On 31 July<br />

1986, Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates<br />

submitted a draft resolution 79 calling on the US to comply with the Court’s decision<br />

(original emphasis):<br />

Taking Note of the Order of 10 May 1984 of the International Court of Justice<br />

(S/16564) on the Provisional Measures of Protection, its Judgement of 26<br />

November 1984 on the jurisdiction and admissibility of the demand on 9 April<br />

1984 presented by Nicaragua and the final Judgement of the Court on Military<br />

and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua on 27 June 1986 (S/18221),<br />

Aware that, according to the Charter of the United Nations, the International<br />

Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and that<br />

* but not that the acts committed were themselves immutable to the United States.

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