Update at icsid page:
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Its kind of strange because if they did not have the authority to hear the case why are they hearing the case? More importantly why has the DRC asked the question as it gives authority and legitimacy to the ICSID,
Because that's how courts work. If there is a jurisdictional issue it is up to the other party to submit their arguments and for the court to rule. I have one of those I'm running tomorrow in the IRC
Exact same thing happened in the ICC case vs Cominiere. It's a delaying tactic. The ICSID will have ruled that they prima facie have jurisdiction because THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY FUCKING NAMED IN THE DRC MINING CODE LMFAO
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818. The Defendant has not given a convincing explanation to question 9 of the Arbitral Tribunal, asking whether the Kalemie High Court should have taken into account the existence of the arbitration clause in the Amended JV Contract and declared itself incompetent to deal with certain issues, including the contract for the termination of the Amended JV Contract .
819. Indeed, the Defendant never explained on what legal basis the Kalemie High Court had based its jurisdiction, but only asserted that it "had jurisdiction to establish this termination and draw the consequences thereof" and "must be accepted by this Court and by the Parties.
820. As they had not been summoned, the Claimants were unable to invoke the lack of jurisdiction of the Kalemie High Court due to the arbitration clause contained in article 11 of the Amended JV Contract which, according to them, would have led the Kalemie High Court to declare itself lacking jurisdiction'.
821. The Arbitral Tribunal is astonished by the fact that the High Court of Kalemie found that a contract had been terminated without the other parties to the contract being heard or summoned to express their position.
822. In fact, the Defendant summoned CAMI, which is not a party to the Amended JV Contract, before the High Court of Kalemie and not AVZI and Dathcom.
823. The Defendant argued that CAMI was the "sole defendant in the proceedings, in the presence of the Public Prosecutor". It did not answer the question of whether the other parties to the contract were required under Congolese law to be heard or summoned, but stated that the Arbitral Tribunal does not have to rule either on the jurisdiction of the TGI of Kalemie, or on the merits of the grounds for this decision.
824. However, in the present award, the Arbitral Tribunal must rule on the emergency measures ordered by the Emergency Arbitrator and take into account the actions of the Parties in the context of these proceedings.
825. The Arbitral Tribunal does not rule on the merits of the dispute, so its award does not have the same purpose or basis as the judgment of the Kalemie High Court. In fact, it does not even concern the same parties, since only Cominière and CAMI were parties to the Congolese proceedings, even though the rights of AVZI, Dathcom and GLH are directly affected by this judgment.
826. The Arbitral Tribunal will not decide in this Partial Award whether the Defendant's obtaining of the Kalemie TGI Judgment constitutes "fraud" as raised by the Claimants in their Mémoire en Duplique of April 2, 2024, paras. 88 to 91 and at hearing of April 3, 2024 364 since this is a question of substance, noting in passing that this argument was raised only the day before the hearing of April 3, 2024'.
827. This question can be left open at this stage, as the Arbitral Tribunal can only observe, and this is not disputed by the Defendant, that the Judgment of the Kalemie High Court was not rendered in a manner that respected the adversarial process or the arbitration clause contained in article 11.1 of the Amended JV Contract.
828. The Arbitral Tribunal therefore rejects the Defendant's argument that this Judgment would deprive the Order of May 5, 2024 of any effect and that the emergency measures contained therein should be lifted.
829. This Judgment of the Kalemie High Court cannot therefore be invoked as an obstacle to the emergency , and each violation invoked by the Claimants in their Request for partial liquidation of the penalty payments must be examined in the light of all the circumstances of case. Admissibility and admissibility under Congolese law of the Claimants' submissions
830. With regard to the admissibility of the Claimants' submissions, the Arbitral Tribunal notes that the Claimants' main request in their Statement of Claim on the merits is that the Arbitral Tribunal declare the termination of the Amended JV Contract null and void and allow contractual relations to continue.
831. The questions whether these submissions made by the Claimants are admissible or admissible under Congolese law are questions of admissibility and substance which the Arbitral Tribunal will decide in these proceedings when it issues its Final Award but which, in the limited context of the decisions made in this Partial Award, do not need to be decided.
832. It should also be emphasized that the decisions of the Arbitral Tribunal in this Partial Award are without prejudice to future decisions of the Arbitral Tribunal in its Final Award on questions of admissibility and/or admission of claims on the merits.
833. At this stage, however, the Arbitral Tribunal cannot rule out the possibility that the Claimants' conclusions, in particular in execution of the Amended IV Contract, will subsequently be admitted in the Final Award. The criterion of risk of irreparable harm therefore exists in this respect at the date of issue this Partial Award.
834. Accordingly, the Arbitral Tribunal concludes that the risk of irreparable harm criterion is still met at the date of issuance this Partial Award and rejects this second objection by the Defendant