1 P R O C E E D I N G S

2 PRESIDENT WOLFRUM: Good morning to everybody, Your

3 Excellencies. The Arbitral Tribunal in the case on Bangladesh versus India is now

4 starting its hearing.

5 I would like to welcome you very much, and particularly the Minister of

6 Foreign Affairs from Bangladesh as well as the Attorney General of India who we had not

7 the pleasure here to meet. The others we had met frequently during our site visit.