Legal Status of Eastern Greenland (Denmark v. Norway)
Permanent Court of International Justice
1933 P.C.I.J. (ser. A/B) No. 53, at 71
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Norway occupied and claimed parts of Eastern Greenland previously claimed by Denmark. A Danish diplomatic representative asked Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs about Norway's intentions toward Eastern Greenland, and the Minister replied that Norway did not intend to contest Danish sovereignty over the whole of Greenland; Denmark later sued Norway before the Court, alleging Norway had violated Danish sovereignty there.
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Whether a unilateral statement made by a Minister of Foreign Affairs on behalf of his government may ever be binding upon the country to which the Minister belongs.