Judge Nawaf Salam presided over the ICJ ruling on Nicaragua's request to order Berlin to halt military arms exports to Israel.Judge Nawaf Salam presided over the ICJ ruling on Nicaragua's request to order Berlin to halt military arms exports to Israel.has rejected a request by Nicaragua to issue Germany emergency orders to desist selling arms to Israel, by 15 votes to one.
The court also found that only four licences for war weapons had been issued by the German government including two for training ammunition. The court accepted that 3,000 portable anti-tank weapons had been supplied, and the licence for the sale of a submarine is pending. Germany said 98 % of licences granted concerned defensive military equipment, not war weapons.
Nawaf Salam, the court’s president, said: “Based on the factual information and legal arguments presented by the parties, the court concludes that, as present, the circumstances are not such as to require the exercise of its power … to indicate provisional measures.”
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