In 1989, Nauru took legal actions against Australia in the International Court of Justice over Australia's actions during its administration of Nauru.

Nauru appealed to the International Court of Justice to compensate for the damage from almost a century of phosphate strip-mining by foreign companies.

Finally, in 1993, Nauru was forced to turn to the International Court of Justice at The Hague in The Netherlands.

1 ( Nauru International Airport )

1 ( Nauru International Airport, IATA airport code INU )

The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).

* the Nauru International Airport and the air terminal

Additionally outside the region, Nauru is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Trade Organization.

For example, Nauru is one of only three UN-recognized nations with a sea border that is not a member of the International Maritime Organization ( the others are the Federated States of Micronesia and Niue ).

Similarly, the Nauru is one of only seven UN members that is not a member of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, one of 8 not part of the International Monetary Fund, one of 12 UN not part of the International Finance Corporation.

Nauru also is not a member of the International Development Association and has no society associated with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Finally, as with many other nations in Oceania, Nauru is not a member of Interpol or of the International Hydrographic Organization.

Its main base is Nauru International Airport.

Its head office is on the property of Nauru International Airport, Yaren District, and its operations office is in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Nauru has competed internationally in Australian rules football at the Arafura Games, Australian Football International Cup and Barassi International Youth Tournament.

Nauru earns a distinction for being the smallest nation ( by population ) in the 202 member International Olympic Committee.

The main entrance of Nauru Airport

An Air Nauru Fokker Fellowship at Melbourne Airport, Australia.

An Air Nauru Boeing 737-400 at Sydney Airport, Australia.

Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York International Airport.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

The pilot radioed El Paso International Airport with just that message.

* Ada International Airport or Saipan International Airport, Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

11 ( 2008 ) Only Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri's Shirak Airport are in use for commercial aviation.

The main airport is Pago Pago International Airport.

* 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport

From the U. S., many airlines now fly to Juan N. Álvarez International Airport year-round.

* 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

* 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport ( now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport ).

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf International Airport ( 80 km ), Cologne Bonn Airport ( 90 km ) and Maastricht Aachen Airport ( 40 km ).