paragraph 244 in volume 2, chapter 15, Advisory Jurisdiction
The decision of the requesting organ to avail itself of Article 96 of the Charter and to adopt a request for an advisory opinion, itself a political decision, carries an implication that the requesting organ regards the question as a legal one, to which it desires a legal answer produced by application of the judicial techniques of the Court’s advisory jurisdiction. However, as seen that determination of the characteristic of the question is not binding on t…