The Agent of the Argentine Republic, Ambassador Susana Ruiz Cerutti, and the Agent of the Republic of Ghana Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong have the honour to address the Honourable Arbitral Tribunal in order to transmit the following considerations:

1. As reported to the Honourable Arbitral Tribunal by the Ghanaian Delegation on May 21, 2013, at that moment there were ongoing judicial proceedings before the Ghanaian Supreme Court related to this case. The said proceedings had been instituted on December 19, 2012, following the provisional measure of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea adopted on December 15, 2012, by the Ghanaian Attorney General requesting the Supreme Court of Ghana to quash the orders of interlocutory injunction made on October 2, 2012, by Judge Frimpong against the Argentine warship- frigate "ARA Libertad"-, as well as the ruling delivered on October 11, 2012, by the same judge confirming such injunction order. In addition, the Attorney General requested the Supreme Court to issue an order of prohibition barring all Ghanaian lower Courts from entertaining any previous or further actions or proceedings in the suit in respect of which the orders sought to be quashed were made.