Editing Nicaragua v. United States (section)

==Nicaragua's submissions==
Nicaragua charged:

:(a) That the United States, in recruiting, training, arming, equipping, financing, supplying and otherwise encouraging, supporting, aiding, and directing military and [[paramilitary]] actions in and against Nicaragua, had violated its treaty obligations to Nicaragua under:
:: Article 2 (4) of the [[United Nations Charter]];
:: Articles 18 and 20 of the [[Charter of the Organization of American States]];
:: Article 8 of the [[Montevideo Convention|Convention on the Rights and Duties of States]];
:: Article I, Third, of the Convention concerning the Duties and Rights of States in the Event of Civil Strife.

:(b) That the United States had breached [[customary international law]] by

::1. violating the [[sovereignty]] of Nicaragua by:
::: armed attacks against Nicaragua by air, land and sea;
::: incursions into Nicaraguan territorial waters;
::: aerial trespass into Nicaraguan airspace;
::: efforts by direct and indirect means to coerce and intimidate the Government of Nicaragua.
::2. using force and the threat of force against Nicaragua.
::3. intervening in the internal affairs of Nicaragua.
::4. infringing upon the freedom of the high seas and interrupting peaceful maritime commerce.
::5. killing, wounding and kidnapping citizens of Nicaragua.

Nicaragua demanded that all such actions cease and that the United States had an obligation to pay reparations to the government for damage to their people, property, and economy.

It is noteworthy that the United States, the respondent party, was the only member that put forward arguments against the validity of the judgment of the court, arguing that it passed a decision that it "had neither the jurisdiction nor the competence to render."  Members that sided with the United States in opposing Nicaragua's claims did not challenge the court's jurisdiction, its findings, nor the substantive merits of the case.<ref>{{cite journal | title=United States Decides Not to Participate in World Court Case Initiated by Nicaragua| journal=UN Chronicle |date=January 1985 | volume=22 | issue=January}}</ref>