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World Food Programme (WFP) Conference

EXECUTIVE BOARD Sessions: first, second and third regular, Rome, Italy, 13-16 Feb- Seventh United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference ruary, 16-18 May, 22-25 October; annual, Rome, 21-24 May for the Americas President: Ulla-Maija Finskas-Aho (Finland) Session: New York, 22-26 January Membership: 36 President: Mexico Report: E/2002/36 Attendance: 136 representatives and observers of 34 countries Decisions: ESC 2001/201 A-C and territories and 18 intergovernmental/international scien- tific organizations Executive Director of WFP: Catherine A. Bertini Report: E/2001/11

Trusteeship Council

Article 86 of the United Nations Charter lays down that the Trus- General Assembly as will ensure that the membership of the teeship Council shall consist of the following: Council is equally divided between United Nations Members that administer Trust Territories and those that do not.15 Members of the United Nations administering Trust Territories; Permanent members of the Security Council that do not adminis- Members: China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, ter Trust Territories; United States. As many other members elected for a three-year term by the

International Court of Justice

Judges of the Court Parties to the Court's Statute The International Court of Justice consists of 15 Judges All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the elected for nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Statute of the International Court of Justice. Also party to it was Security Council. the following non-member: Switzerland. The following were the Judges of the Court serving in 2001, listed in the order of precedence: States accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court Declarations made by the following States, a number with res- End of 16 ervations, accepting the Court's compulsory jurisdiction (or Judge Country of nationality term made under the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Gilbert Guillaume, President France 2009 Justice and deemed to be an acceptance of the jurisdiction of the 18 Shi Jiuyong, Vice-President China 2003 International Court) were in force at the end of 2001: Shigeru Oda Japan 2003 Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Cote d'lvoire,19 Cy- Mohammed Bedjaoui17 Algeria 2006 prus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Raymond Ranjeva Madagascar 2009 Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, , Geza Herczegh Hungary 2003 Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Japan, Carl-August Fleischhauer Germany 2003 Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagas- car, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Nauru, , New Abdul G. Koroma Sierra Leone 2003 Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Para- Vladlen S. Vereshchetin Russian Federation 2006 guay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, Su- Rosalyn Higgins United Kingdom 2009 dan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Uganda, Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren Venezuela 2009 United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. Pieter H. Kooijmans Netherlands 2006 Francisco Rezek 2006 United Nations organs and specialized and related agencies Awn Shawkat AI-Khasawneh Jordan 2009 authorized to request advisory opinions from the Court Thomas Buergenthal United States 2006 Authorized by the United Nations Charter to request opinions on any legal question: General Assembly, Security Council. Registrar Philippe Couvreur. Authorized by the General Assembly in accordance with the Charter to request opinions on legal questions arising within Deputy Registrar Jean-Jacques Arnaldez. the scope of their activities: Economic and Social Council, Chamber of Summary Procedure Trusteeship Council, Interim Committee of the General Assem- bly, ILO, FAO, UNESCO, ICAO, WHO, World Bank, IFC, IDA, Members: Gilbert Guillaume (ex officio), Shi Jiuyong (ex officio), IMF, ITU, WMO, IMO, WIPO, IFAD, UNIDO, IAEA. Geza Herczegh, Abdul G. Koroma, Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren. Substitute members: Rosalyn Higgins, Awn Shawkat AI- Khasawneh. Committees of the Court

Chamber for Environmental Matters BUDGETARY AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE Members: Gilbert Guillaume (ex officio), Shi Jiuyong (ex officio), Members: Gilbert Guillaume (ex officio) (Chair), Shi Jiuyong (ex Mohammed Bedjaoui (until 30 September), Raymond Ranjeva, officio), Mohammed Bedjaoui (until 30 September), Raymond Geza Herczegh, Francisco Rezek, Awn Shawkat AI- Ranjeva, Carl-August Fleischhauer, Vladlen S. Vereshchetin, Khasawneh, Nabil Elaraby (from 12 October). Pieter H. Kooijmans, Nabil Elaraby (from 12 October).