International organizations — United Nations — Security Council — Powers to maintain international peace and security — Security Council Resolutions — 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 immunity from execution

State immunity — Attachment and execution — Bank accounts — Funds allegedly allocated for diplomatic functions — Criteria for determining whether funds immune from attachment — Intended allocation of funds — Whether courts of forum entitled to investigate 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, Article 24 — Whether rules on inviolability extending to bank accounts

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