paragraph 140 in volume 1, chapter 8, Finance and Administration
Appraisal of the budgetary arrangement needs to be directed to one main question, namely: Has the provision of funds, sufficient to enable the Court to discharge its functions properly in accordance with binding provisions of the Charter and Statute, been achieved at the cost of impairing the independence of the Court? In this connection, the Court, unlike other principal and subsidiary organs of the United Nations, cannot c…