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| | Press Communiqué 2000/7 - Visit of the President of the French Republic to the International Court of Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, was received today by the International Court of Justice at the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the Court. |
 | | The French presence, he stressed, however, was "not purely intellectual", since the Palace had been constructed to a design by an architect from Lille, Louis Cordonnier, and a painting by a French artist, Albert Besnard, illustrating the ideal of peace through justice adorned the Great Hall of Justice. |
 | | The President of the French Republic pleaded in favour of a more systematic recourse to the Court, stressing that "States encumbered by longstanding disputes unable to be resolved by negotiation should be firmly encouraged to refer their cases" to it. |
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