## ORDER No. 2024-2 — “AB”, Applicant v. International Monetary Fund (Withdrawal of the Application)

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### Procedural history and filings
- On April 12, 2024, Applicant filed an Application with the Tribunal, which included a request for anonymity and requests for the production of documents.
- On April 19, 2024, upon the Registrar’s invitation, Applicant filed a supplementation and clarification of the Application.
- On April 22, 2024, the Application as supplemented and clarified (the “Application”) was transmitted to Respondent.
- On June 6, 2024, Respondent filed an Answer.
- On June 20, 2024, Applicant filed a request to compel the production of documents before the filing of the Reply and requested an extension of future deadlines, including that for the filing of the Reply.
- On June 25, 2024, Respondent filed its response to Applicant’s June 20 requests.
- On July 1, 2024, the Tribunal informed the parties that future deadlines would be suspended until the Tribunal had rendered its decision on Applicant’s requests for the production of documents.
- On August 9, 2024, the Tribunal rendered decisions (i) granting Applicant’s request for anonymity, (ii) substantially upholding Applicant’s requests for the production of documents (the “Decision on Document Production”), and (iii) extending the deadline for Applicant to file the Reply.
- On August 23, 2024, Respondent produced documents pursuant to the Tribunal’s Decision on Document Production.
- On September 6, 2024, Applicant filed a Reply.
- On September 20, 2024, the parties filed a joint request for an extension of the deadline for Respondent to file the Rejoinder in order to explore the possibility of settling the dispute amicably; on the same date, the Tribunal granted the parties’ joint request.
- On October 4, 2024, the parties filed an additional joint request to extend the deadline for the filing of the Rejoinder while continuing to explore a possible settlement of the dispute; on the same date, the Tribunal again granted the parties’ joint request.
- On November 4, 2024, the parties filed an additional joint request for a similar extension, which the Tribunal granted on the same date.
- On December 5, 2024, the parties filed yet another joint request for a further extension, which the Tribunal granted on December 6, 2024.

### Resolution and Tribunal action
- On December 16, 2024, Applicant informed the Tribunal that “the parties ha[d] reached an amicable resolution in this case” and that “[a]ccordingly, Applicant . . . hereby permanently withdraws all claims made in this matter and asks that the case be dismissed”.
- On December 19, 2024, the Tribunal informed the parties that it would be prepared to issue an Order (1) taking note of the parties’ notification of the amicable resolution of the dispute in the present case, and (2) recording that Applicant’s Application has been withdrawn and that the proceedings have accordingly been terminated.
- For the sake of good order, the parties were invited to confirm that they had no objection to the Tribunal proceeding in this manner, which both parties did on December 20, 2024.
- The Tribunal unanimously decides to record that:
  - (i) Applicant’s Application has been withdrawn; and
  - (ii) the proceedings before the Tribunal have accordingly been terminated.

### Signatories and date
- Nassib G. Ziadé, President
- Deborah Thomas-Felix, Judge
- Kieran Bradley, Judge
- /s/ Nassib G. Ziadé, President
- /s/ Paul Jean Le Cannu, Registrar
- Washington, D.C., December 23, 2024

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_Source: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/imfat/o2024-2.pdf_