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Summary of the Judgment of 27 June 1986 Available in: English French. ... See other cases involving. Nicaragua United States of America.
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United States of America) Judgments. Judgment of 26 November...
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The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America (1986) was a case where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Sandinistas and by mining Nicaragua's harbors.
In June 1986 the International Court handed down one of its most important judgments in forty years. It was certainly the most important for the United States. According to some observers, the decision was the best that the Court has delivered, and under difficult circumstances too.
Report of the International Court of Justice, 1 August 1985-31 July 1986. ICJ. 1986
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- 1986
May 2, 2012 · The notion of ‘armed attack’ is at the heart of the law on the use of force in self-defence. The ICJ first addressed the issue in its judgment in Nicaragua; however, its formulation of the legal parameters of ‘armed attack’ has not been without controversy.
- Judge Abdulqawi A. Yusuf
- 2012
This article is referenced to the thirtieth anniversary of the ICJ’s Nicaragua judgement on the merits of 1986. It acknowledges the significance of this much-debated judgement for the modern international law on the use of force (jus ad bellum).
Case name (ICC naming convention): Nicaragua v. United States of America (Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua)
