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Assertion (A): The International Court of Justice has jurisdiction over the areas common to the…

Under the optional clause (Article 36(2)), the Court's jurisdiction extends only to the area common to the parties' declarations, a limitation that flows from the principle…

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Assertion (A): The International Court of Justice has jurisdiction over the areas common to the litigants declarations.
Reason (R): This is the effects of the Principle of reciprocity

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Under the optional clause (Article 36(2)), the Court's jurisdiction extends only to the area common to the parties' declarations, a limitation that flows from the principle of reciprocity, so "Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A".

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