23 April 2010. I have the honour to inform you that the Executive Board of the InternationalذFund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), by a resolution adopted in its 99th session on 22 April 2010, acting within the framework of Article XII of the Annex ofذthe Statute of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organizationذ(ILOAT), decided to challenge the decision rendered by the Tribunal in Judgment No. 2867 at its 108th Session, on 3 February 2010, in the matter of S-G. v. IFAD, and to refer the question of the validity of Judgment No. 2867 to the International Court of Justice. Accordingly, the Executive Board of IFAD, by a resolution adopted at its 99th session on 22 April 2010, decided to request the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on the following questions : “I. Was the ILOAT competent, under Article II of its Statute, to hear the complaint introduced against the International Fund for Agricultural Development (hereby the Fund) on 8 July 2008 by Ms S-G., an individual who was a member of the staff of the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (hereby the Convention) for which the Fund acts merely as housing organization ?