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Fourteen Judges Elected by the UN General Assembly

Press Release . Communiqué de presse

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The Hague, 22 November 2004

CT/P.I.S./913-e


FOURTEEN JUDGES ELECTED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY


On Friday 19 November 2004, following seven rounds of voting over two days, the General Assembly of the United Nations elected the following as permanent Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for a term of office of four years, commencing on 17 November 2005 and expiring in 2009:




Carmel A. Agius (Malta)


Jean-Claude Antonetti (France)


Iain Bonomy (United Kingdom)


O-gon Kwon (Republic of Korea)


Liu Daqun (China)


Theodor Meron (United States of America)


Bakone Melema Moloto (South Africa)


Alphonsus Martinus Maria Orie (Netherlands)


Kevin Horace Parker (Australia)


Fausto Pocar (Italy)


Patrick Lipton Robinson (Jamaica)


Wolfgang Schomburg (Germany)


Mohamed Shahabuddeen (Guyana)


Christine Van Den Wyngaert (Belgium)




The procedure for the election of permanent Judges may be found in Article 13 and 13bis of the Statute of the ICTY. These documents can be found on the ICTY web site at www.un.org/icty




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