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Clauses like this get written at the end of a negotiation, by tired people, to cover a case everybody hopes will not arise.
The wording gives jurisdiction to the authority "first seised of the matter". That phrase has a settled meaning in one legal tradition and a slightly different one in the other, and the treaty does not say which applies.
Two filings were made four days apart. Both parties say they were first.
A procedural hearing is listed for next month. Whatever it decides will be read closely, because eleven other agreements use the same boilerplate.
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