Norway's representative, Rolf Einar Fife, reminded the court that his own country unilaterally dissolved its union with Sweden in 1905, and said declarations of independence are not, in themselves, "the object of regulation by public international law".
Predstavnik Norveške Rolf Einar Fife podsetio je sud da je njegova zemlja jednostrano raskinula savez sa Švedskom 1905. godine, ukazujući da proglašenje nezavisnosti nije, samo po sebi, "predmet uređen javnim međunarodnim pravom".