Fax this letter to Stephen Schwebel,
the new president of the court.

Dear Mr. President:

Congratulations on your well-deserved appointment as the new President of
the International Court of Justice. Your professional background is sure to
further increase the reputation of the Court.

This month, for the first time in history, your Court will decide on an
environmental lawsuit which affects all humankind. In ruling on the future of
the Danube in the dispute between Hungary and Slovakia, you and your fellow
judges can set a precedent by ruling that rivers, forests, and oceans are not
the sole properties of nations, that nations do not have the right to destroy
unique ecosystems.

The ecosystem of the Szigetkoz is dying due to the tragic drop in
groundwater level which is caused by the rerouting of the Danube. This region,
which was the oxygen supply of the Danube, has been destroyed because the lung
of the river (the wetland region) has been cut out. Shipping on the Danube has
suffered because of flimsy construction and because the dam is not designed to
handle ice. Most importantly, the population of the region is in physical
danger and two-thirds of the populations of Dobrohost, Vojka and Bodiky have
already fled.

The Foundation to Protect the Hungarian Environment has submitted to the
Court a Compromise Plan to return the Danube into its natural riverbed. I hope
and trust that the Court will save the ecosystem of the Szigetkoz by giving
this Compromise Plan serious consideration as it makes its historic ruling.

Respectfully Yours,

Your name, address, title