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(Submitted pursuant to article 30, paragraph 3, of the Statute and article 8, paragraph 4, of the Resolution on the Internal Judicial Practice of the Tribunal.)

1. Having, to my regret, been unable to concur with the Judgment of the Tribunal, I felt it was my duty to state my dissenting opinion.

In my view, the submission of the Government of Guinea to the effect that the Application of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was inadmissible due to the fact that the Saiga was not duly registered should have been sustained by the Tribunal. Similarly, the question with regard to jurisdiction and the question relating to the objections raised by Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the challenges to admissibility should have been dealt with otherwise, for the following reasons: