While LOST proponents argue that the United States will choose available arbitration mechanisms to avoid legal decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), such arbitration panels are no-less perilous for U.S. interests as the decisive, "swing" arbiters would be appointed by generally unfriendly UN-affiliated bureaucrats.

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The cases of 51 other non-US citizens whose arrests breached the Vienna Convention were recently examined by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered the US to hold substantive reviews of their cases.

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Argentina lodged a complaint before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2006, arguing that Uruguay had broken the terms of a 1975 treaty regulating the use of the River Uruguay which forms the border between them.

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In May the International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, began deliberating on a case between Colombia and Nicaragua over a piece of the Caribbean.

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