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UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA SPLOS Distr. MEETING OF GENERAL STATES PARTIES SPLOS/11 25 June 1996 ENGLISH ORIGINAL: ARABIC/CHINESE/ENGLISH/ FRENCH/RUSSIAN/SPANISH MEETING OF STATES PARTIES Fifth meeting New York, 24 July-2 August 1996 CURRICULA VITAE OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY STATES PARTIES FOR ELECTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE LAW OF THE SEA Note by the Secretary-General CONTENTS Page I. INTRODUCTION ..................................................... 3 II. CURRICULA VITAE .................................................. 4 AKL, Joseph ...................................................... 4 ANDERSON, David Heywood .......................................... 6 ATTARD, David J. ................................................. 9 BULA-BULA, Raymond Sayeman ....................................... 20 CAMINOS, Hugo .................................................... 22 DEGNI-SEGUI, René ................................................ 33 EIRIKSSON, Gudmundur ............................................. 37 EL-HUSSEIN, Ali Khalid ........................................... 39 ENGO, Paul Bamela ................................................ 42 FOMBA, Salifou ................................................... 47 96-15821 (E) 050796 /... SPLOS/11 English Page 2 CONTENTS (continued) Page HAKAPÄÄ, Kari .................................................... 49 JACOVIDES, Andreas J. ............................................ 51 KOLODKIN, Anatoly Lazarevich ..................................... 59 LAING, Edward Arthur ............................................. 67 MAROTTA RANGEL, Vicente .......................................... 72 MARSIT, Mohamed Mouldi ........................................... 82 MENSAH, Thomas A. ................................................ 85 NDIAYE, Tafsir Malick ............................................ 90 NELSON, L. Dolliver M. ........................................... 93 OCHAN, Ralph W. .................................................. 99 PARK, Choon-Ho ................................................... 102 PINTO, Moragodage Christopher Walter ............................. 104 RAO, P. Chandrasekhara ........................................... 105 ROSENNE, Shabtai ................................................. 113 SHEARER, Ivan Anthony ............................................ 125 TREVES, Tullio ................................................... 133 VUKAS, Budislav .................................................. 144 WARIOBA, Joseph Sinde ............................................ 154 WOLFRUM, Rüdiger ................................................. 157 YAMAMOTO, Soji ................................................... 173 YANKOV, Alexander ................................................ 176 YORAC, Haydee B. ................................................. 182 ZHAO, Lihai ...................................................... 186 /... SPLOS/11 English Page 3 I. INTRODUCTION The Secretary-General hereby submits to the Meeting of States Parties the curricula vitae of the candidates nominated by States Parties for the election of 21 Members of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which will take place during its fifth meeting. A list of the candidates nominated for this election is contained in document SPLOS/10. /... SPLOS/11 English Page 4 II. CURRICULA VITAE AKL, Joseph (Lebanon) Date and place of birth: 5 August 1936 at Damour, Lebanon Languages: Arabic, French, English, German and Spanish Education and professional experience: Studies of Psycho-Pedagogy at Beirut’s Normal School and at Aix-en-Provence (France), 1952-1956 1961: Licence (Master’s degree) in public law from the Faculty of Law of Saint Joseph University, Beirut. 1962: Higher Studies Diploma for Ph.D. in public law, Faculty of Law of Paris University. 1955-1963: Teacher at the Ministry of National Education. 1963-1973: Assistant-professor of public law, Faculty of Law of the Saint Joseph University, Beirut. 1963-1966: Head of Section at the Department of Administrative and Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1966-1972: Assistant-director at the Department of International Organisations, Conferences and Treaties. 1973-1978: First counsellor of the Lebanese Embassy, Washington. 1978-1983: Legal adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head of the Research and Documentation Center. 25-1-1980: Promoted to the rank of Ambassador. 1983-1990: Ambassador of Lebanon to the German Democratic Republic. 1991-1994: Ambassador of Lebanon to Colombia. Since June 1994: Legal adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head of the Research and Documentation Center. - Member of the Lebanese delegation to the following sessions of the United Nations General Assembly: twenty-third, twenty-sixth, twenty- seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirty-third, thirty-fourth, /... SPLOS/11 English Page 5 thirty-fifth, thirty-seventh and forty-ninth sessions, and representative of Lebanon at the sixth Legal Committee and at the Special Political Committee. - Member of the Lebanese delegation to the second session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (New Delhi, 1968), to the Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 held at Lima, Peru (1971) and to the United Nations Conference on Environment (Stockholm, 1972). - Member of the Lebanese delegation to the seventy-sixth session (1981), the seventy-eighth session (1982) and the one hundred and third session (1995) of the Council of the Arab States League. - Member of the Lebanese delegation to the 12th Summit of Kings and Heads of Arab States (Fez, 1982) and to the two preparatory conferences of Foreign Affairs Ministers (Fez, 1981 and Mohammadiah, 1982). - Member of the Lebanese delegation to the Conference of Foreign Affairs Ministers, Islamic Conference Organisation (Niamey, 1982). - Elected member of the International Law Commission of the Arab States League on 24-3-1979 and re-elected in March 1982. Elected President of this Commission for the year 1983. Head of the Lebanese delegation - to the diplomatic conference on the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation (Montreal, 1971). - to the twentieth session of the Legal Committee of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Montreal, 1973). - to the diplomatic Conference on Succession of States in respect of Treaties (Vienna, 1978). - to the third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, at its eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh sessions (New York and Geneva, 1979 to 1982). /... SPLOS/11 English Page 6 ANDERSON, David Heywood (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) Born 14 September 1937 in England; British citizen; CMG (1982) Leeds University, LL.B (1958); London School of Economics, LL.M (1960). Called to the Bar, Gray’s Inn (1963). Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London (1960-9). Legal Adviser, British Embassy, Bonn (1969-72). Legal Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1972-9 and 1982-7). Legal Adviser, UK Mission to the United Nations, New York (1979-82). Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1987-9). Second Legal Adviser (1989- ). Visiting professor, University of Durham (1995- ). Agent for the UK in the fisheries Jurisdiction Case (Merits) (UK v. Iceland) International Court of Justice (1974); and in cases before the European Court and Commission of Human Rights (1976-9). Member of UK teams for the Factortame (No. 2) and Baselines cases before the European Court of Justice. Member of UK delegations to numerous international conferences and meetings, including: - Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea - United Nations Security Council (1979-82) - United Nations General Assembly (1967- ) - Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties (1969) - Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (1963-78) - Conference on Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (1977-78) - Council of Europe meeting on the Suppression of Marine ("Pirate") Broadcasting (1965) - MARPOL Conference (1973) - Quadripartite Conference on Berlin (1971) - United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of the Seabed (1973) - International Maritime Organization - South Atlantic Fisheries Commission (Argentina and UK) (1990- ) - High Level Group on the Continental Shelf (1991- ). /... SPLOS/11 English Page 7 Leader of the UK delegations for: - United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (1993-5) - United Nations Secretary-General’s consultations about Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1990-4) - Preparatory Commission for the International Seabed Authority and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1990-4) - International Seabed Authority (1994- ) - Maritime boundary negotiations with Ireland, France, Belgium, Denmark (Faroes), the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Maldives, United States, Jamaica, Cuba - Channel Islands fisheries talks with France (1989- ) - Task force of North Sea States on the introduction of EEZs and Pollution Jurisdiction (1993-5) - EC Senior Officials Meetings on Law of the Sea (1989- ) Member of the Study Group of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on Joint Development of Offshore Oil and Gas (1989). Member of the Committee on Public International Law of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (1992- ). Member of the Group of Experts, convened by the United Nations Office for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea in 1992, on the Impact