MOSUL FRONTIER.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18547, 24 November 1925, Page 9

MOSUL FRONTIER.

——♦ INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE. (BT CABLE—J"MM ASSOCIATION - — COrTttdST.) (BKUTXII'S TXItQXIMi.) THE HAGUE, November tJi.'. The International Court of Justice has pronounced the opinion that the decision to be taken by thc Council of the League of Nations regarding the Mosul dispute must be binding on both parties', and constitute a definite determination of the Turco-Ifaq frontier, and that th<; decision must be unanimous. The first ruling upholds thc British view, and thc socond is contrary to it. [The League of Nations International Commission set up to report on tho disputed frontier between Iraq and Turkey, reported in favour of tho n6n-par-tition of the area, but held that unless Great Britain maintained tho mandate for twenty-five years the greater part of the Mosul vilayet should bo attached to Turkey. Some two years or more ago Britain entered into a treaty providing for the gradual establishment of the complete sovereignty of Iraq. The treaty waa to terminate upon Iraq becoming a member of tho League of Nations, and in any case not later than four years from the ratification of peace with Turkey—i.e., in 1928 at the latest. The Commission's report was considered by the League Council and referred to the International Court of Justice for decision on the legal aspects of tho report. The questions laid before the Court were Whether the Council was competent, under the Treaty of Lausanne to give a binding arbitral award, whether its doeiaions must be unanimous, and whether Turkey and Great Britain have 'a right to vote.]