Palestine files an application for permission to intervene and a declaration of intervention in the proceedings, invoking Articles 62 and 63 of the Statute of the Court at International Court of Justice

54. Palestine states that its application for permission to intervene and declaration of intervention are “cumulative and alternative”. It first applies for permission to intervene under Article 62 of the Statute of the Court. It submits that every State party to the Genocide Convention has an interest in ensuring compliance with that instrument and that, therefore, Palestine has an “interest of a legal nature which may be affected by the decision in the case”, as required by Article 62. Palestine further states that it has a “special interest” in the current proceedings as a specially affected State.
56. Palestine also submits a declaration of intervention under Article 63 of the Statute of the Court, pursuant to which, whenever the construction of a convention to which States other than those concerned in the case are parties is in question, each of these States has the right to intervene in the proceedings. Palestine explains that it wishes to intervene on the construction of Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI and IX, as well as the Preamble to the Genocide Convention.