Reports of international arbitral awards : Vol. 32

This publication is a collection of international awards or decisions rendered between States, including cases involving espousing or respondent governments on behalf of individual claimants.

The present volume reproduces the awards in two arbitration cases, namely, the Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration, between Bangladesh and India, and the case between the Netherlands and the Russian Federation in the matter of the Arctic Sunrise.

International arbitral and judicial awards are of considerable importance, for they are a ""subsidiary means for the determination of the rules of law"" as provided in Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

They are also important from the point of view of the progressive development of international law, a task which Article 13 of the Charter places under the responsibility of the General Assembly of the United Nations.