WORLD : U.S. Takes Italy to World Court
The United States today took Italy to the International Court of Justice in the first case it has submitted to the court since Washington rejected its ruling on a dispute with Nicaragua in 1986.
The State Department asked the court to order Italy to pay more than $12 million for its takeover in 1968 of Elettronica Sicula, a U.S.-owned company. It said the takeover of the Palermo firm violated a 1948 U.S.-Italian friendship treaty. Diplomats and lawyers said the case will test a plan by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council--the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, China and France--to strengthen the court’s role.
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