* Prepared on the basis of ICJ Press Release No. 2012/13, 21 March 2012. The public hearings in the case concerning Questions Relating to the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite (Belgium v. Senegal) currently pending before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) opened on Monday, 12 March, and concluded on Wednesday, 21 March 2012. The Court has started the deliberations and its judgment will be rendered at a public sitting at a date which will be announced in due course. My expectation is that the judgment will be rendered sometime in early fall 2012. In its order on provisional…