United Nations A/61/111 General Assembly Distr.: General 23 June 2006 English Original: Chinese/English/French/ Russian/Spanish Sixty-first session Item 102 (c) of the preliminary list* Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: election of the members of the International Law Commission Election of the members of the International Law Commission Note by the Secretary-General Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................... 3 II. Curricula vitae of candidates ..................................................... 4 Ian Brownlie (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) .................. 4 Arturo B. Buena (Philippines) .................................................... 9 Lucius Caflisch (Switzerland) .................................................... 11 Enrique J. A. Candioti (Argentina) ................................................ 22 Pedro Comissário Afonso (Mozambique) ........................................... 26 Riad Daoudi (Syrian Arab Republic) .............................................. 30 Christopher John Robert Dugard (South Africa) ..................................... 34 Constantine P. Economides (Greece) .............................................. 39 Abdelrazeg El-Murtadi Suleiman (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) ........................... 45 Paula Ventura De Carvalho Escarameia (Portugal) ................................... 47 Salifou Fomba (Mali) ........................................................... 53 Giorgio Gaja (Italy) ............................................................ 57 * A/61/50 and Corr.1. 06-40311 (E) 120706 140706 *0640311* A/61/111 Zdzislaw W. Galicki (Poland) .................................................... 61 Hussein A. Hassouna (Egypt) .................................................... 66 Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud (Jordan) .............................................. 70 Marie Gotton Jacobsson (Sweden) ................................................ 73 Maurice Kamto (Cameroon) ..................................................... 83 Fathi Kemicha (Tunisia) ........................................................ 89 Roman Anatolyevitch Kolodkin (Russian Federation) ................................ 91 Carlos López Contreras (Honduras) ............................................... 95 Michael J. Matheson (United States of America) .................................... 99 Donald M. McRae (Canada) ..................................................... 101 Teodor Viorel Melescanu (Romania) .............................................. 110 Djamchid Momtaz (Iran, Islamic Republic of) ...................................... 113 Bernd H. Niehaus (Costa Rica) ................................................... 121 Georg Nolte (Germany) ......................................................... 123 Bayo Ojo (Nigeria) ............................................................. 131 Guillaume Pambou Tchivounda (Gabon) ........................................... 134 Alain Pellet (France) ........................................................... 140 Amrith Rohan Perera (Sri Lanka) ................................................. 160 Ernest Petrič (Slovenia) ......................................................... 165 Gilberto Vergne Saboia (Brazil) .................................................. 169 Narinder Singh (India) .......................................................... 171 Luis Solari Tudela (Peru) ........................................................ 176 Eduardo Valencia-Ospina (Colombia) ............................................. 178 Edmundo Vargas Carreño (Chile) ................................................. 187 Stephen C. Vasciannie (Jamaica) .................................................. 194 Marcelo Vázquez-Bermudez (Ecuador) ............................................ 199 Rauf Versan (Turkey) ........................................................... 203 Amos S. Wako (Kenya) ......................................................... 205 Xue, Hanqin (China) ........................................................... 210 Chusei Yamada (Japan) ......................................................... 216 Nassib G. Ziadé (Lebanon) ...................................................... 220 2 06-40311 A/61/111 I. Introduction 1. In a note verbale of 10 October 2005 to the Permanent Representatives of States Members of the United Nations, the Secretary-General invited nominations by Governments of candidates for election to the International Law Commission for the next five-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2007 and any statements of qualifications of candidates that the nominating Governments might wish to submit. 2. The names of the candidates nominated for election to the Commission, by 1 June 2006 in accordance with article 5 of the Statute of the International Law Commission, are set out in document A/61/92 and Corr.1 and Add.1. 3. The curricula vitae of the candidates submitted by the nominating Governments are contained in section II below. 06-40311 3 A/61/111 II. Curricula vitae of candidates Ian Brownlie (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) [Original: English] Personal history and education Date of birth: 19 September 1932 Called to the Bar: 1958 (Gray’s Inn) Appointed Queen’s Counsel: 1979 (substantive, not honorary) Bencher of Gray’s Inn: 1988 Order of Bernardo O’Higgins of the Republic of Chile, 1986 (for services concerning arbitration and mediation) C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to International Law, Queen’s Birthday Honours, 1993 Commander of the Order of Merit of the Norwegian Crown, 1993 (for services in the International Court of Justice) Current positions Member of the International Law Commission. Elected on the nomination of the Governments of India and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1996; re-elected for a further five years in 2001, on the nomination of the United Kingdom, India, and South Africa. Member of the Executive Council, International Law Association, since 1991. Member of the Council of Management, British Institute of International Law, since 1983. Chairman of Editorial Committee of British Year Book of International Law since 2000. Professional experience 1. Various appointments as arbitrator, including: Judge ad hoc in the case concerning Certain Property (Liechtenstein v Germany) Party-appointed Arbitrator in Wintershall AG et al. v Government of Qatar arbitration (1986-88) President in Occidental of Pakistan Inc. v Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1988-89) Party-appointed Arbitrator in Scimitar Exploration Ltd. v People’s Republic of Bangladesh (1993-4) Party-appointed Arbitrator in Saipem S.P.A. v Bangladesh Oil Gas and Mineral Corporation (1994-) 4 06-40311 A/61/111 Party-appointed Arbitrator in Indus Pipeline Limited v Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1998) President in Compagnie Minière International Or v Republic of Peru (2000-1) Party-appointed Arbitrator in CME Czech Republic B.V. v The Czech Republic (2001-) Party-appointed Arbitrator in dispute between Barbados and Trinidad (2003-). 2. Member of Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Conciliators, International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank), 1990-2000. 3. Judge of the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal, 1995-2000. Elected President in 1996. 4. Ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice, Liechtenstein v Germany, 2001-2. 5. International arbitrations Counsel in: Beagle Channel case (Argentina/Chile) 1974-77 Stichting Greenpeace Council v French State 1986-87 (Rainbow Warrior) Case Concerning Red Sea Islands (Eritrea/Yemen), 1996-99 Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 2000- Nomura v The Russian Federation, 2001 6. International Court of Justice Counsel in: Gulf of Maine case (Canada v US), 1982-84 Malta-Libya Continental Shelf case, 1982-85 Italian Intervention Proceedings in the Malta-Libya case, 1983-84 Nicaragua v United States, Request for Interim Measures of Protection, 1984 Nicaragua v United States case (Jurisdiction and Admissibility), 1984 El Salvador Declaration of Intervention, 1984 Nicaragua v United States case (Merits), 1984-86 Nicaragua v United States case (Compensation), 1986-91 Nicaragua v Costa Rica (Application of 28 July, 1986) Nicaragua v Honduras (Jurisdiction and Admissibility), 1986-88 Nicaragua v Honduras (Merits), 1988-91 Nauru v Australia (Merits), 1989-90, 1992-93 Maritime Boundary case (Denmark v Norway), 1989-93 Nicaraguan Request for Permission to Intervene (El Salvador-Honduras case), 1989-90 06-40311 5 A/61/111 Nauru v Australia (Jurisdiction and Admissibility), 1990-92 Frontier Case (El Salvador v Honduras), Nicaragua intervening, 1990-92 Libya v United Kingdom and United States (Request for Interim Measures), 1992 Libya v United Kingdom and United States (Merits), 1992- Libya v United Kingdom and United States (Preliminary Objections), 1995-8 Iran v United States (Preliminary Objections), 1994-6 Cameroon v Nigeria (Merits), 1994- Cameroon v Nigeria (Preliminary Objections), 1995-8 Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia (Merits), 1995- Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia (Preliminary Objections), 1995-6 Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia (Admissibility of Counter-claim), 1997 Cameroon v Nigeria (Request for Interim Measures), 1996 Botswana/Namibia (Merits), 1996-99 Cameroon v Nigeria (Request for Interpretation of Judgment), 1998 Congo v Uganda (Merits), 1999- Pakistan v India (Preliminary Objection), 1999-2000 Yugoslavia