tional
Court of Justice to render a decision on the following issues: what
are the principles and rules of international law applicable to the delimitation
of the continental shelf? In rendering a decision, the Special
Agreements asked the Court to take account of equitable principles and
the relevant circumstances which characterized the area, as well as recent
trends admitted at the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea. Furthermore,
the Court was asked to ‘specify precisely’ the practical way
enabling the experts of the two countries to delimit those areas without
any difficulties.77