Resolving the Arab Quartet dispute against Qatar in 2017 within the framework of the International Civil Aviation Organization between the Organization’s Council and the International Court of Justice

Abstract

The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization has used to resort to negotiations to resolve disputes arising from the interpretation and application of the Chicago Convention and its annexes. Where the Court is considered a reference for appealing the decisions of the Council under the provisions of the Chicago Convention and its annexes of 1944 and the agreement concluded between the International Civil Aviation Organization and the United Nations in 1947, according to which it became a specialized agency of the agencies associated with the United Nations. In the context of the Arab Quartet’s dispute against Qatar in 2017, Qatar resorted to the organization’s council with the aim of filing a lawsuit before it, to resolve the dispute regarding the air restrictions imposed on it by the Arab Quartet, and on July 31, 2017, the council issued a resolution urging all parties to continue cooperation to enhance the security and sustainability of civil aviation. The international community, where the council’s competence to resolve the conflict was controversial in its nature and the nature of its decision, which prompted the Arab Quartet on July 4, 2018, to challenge it before the International Court of Justice, which exercises its role as an appellate reference by supervising the validity of the decisions of the organization’s council