Zagreb je svoju tužbu ICJ-u uložio u julu 1999, kad su u državi, tad poznatoj pod nazivom Savezna Republika Jugoslavija, ostale još samo dvije od bivših šest jugoslavenskih republika -- Srbija i Crna Gora.
Zagreb filed its suit with the ICJ in July 1999, when only two of the former six Yugoslav republics -- Serbia and Montenegro -- still remained in what was then known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.