International organizations — United Nations — Security Council — Powers to maintain international peace and security — Security Council Resolutions — Whether capable of having direct effect in municipal law — Resolution No. 687 (1991) — Imposition of levy on Iraqi petroleum exports to compensate victims of Gulf War — Whether depriving Iraq of general immunity from execution

State immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — Commercial activity — Agreement with private company for construction of buildings — Enforcement of foreign judgment relating to agreement — Whether foreign State entitled to jurisdictional immunity

State immunity — Attachment and execution — Scope of immunity — Enforcement of exequatur for foreign judgment — Whether foreign State entitled to invoke immunity from execution to oppose application for enforcement — Whether Belgian courts required to examine whether conditions for service complied with in proceedings before French courts

State immunity — Attachment and execution — Bank accounts — Funds allegedly allocated for diplomatic functions — Criteria for determining whether funds immune from attachment — Whether courts of forum entitled to question statements made by sending State concerning allocation of funds

Diplomatic relations — Immunity — Property — Embassy bank account — Whether enjoying automatic immunity from execution — Funds allegedly allocated for diplomatic functions — Burden of proof — Whether courts of receiving State entitled to verify nature of funds deposited by embassy — Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961

Economics, trade and finance — State contracts — Liability for debts — Enforcement of judgment against foreign State — The law of Belgium