UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Security Council

UNITEDUNITED A SNATIONSNATIONS

General AssemblySecurity Council

Distr.GENERAL

A/54/307S/1999/9418 September 1999ENGLISHORIGINAL: ENGLISH/FRENCH/

SPANISH

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SECURITY COUNCILFifty-fourth session Fifty-fourth yearItem 15 (c) of the provisional agenda*

ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCIES IN PRINCIPAL ORGANS: ELECTIONOF FIVE MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

CURRICULA VITAE OF CANDIDATES NOMINATED BY NATIONAL GROUPS

Note by the Secretary-General

CONTENTS

Page

I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 2

II. CURRICULA VITAE ................................................... 2

AL-KHASAWNEH, Awn Shawkat ......................................... 2

BALANDA, Mikuin-Leliel ............................................ 5

GUILLAUME, Gilbert ................................................ 11

HIGGINS, Rosalyn .................................................. 17

PARRA-ARANGUREN, Gonzalo .......................................... 21

RANJEVA, Raymond .................................................. 30

WEERAMANTRY, Christopher Gregory .................................. 39

* A/54/150.

99-25750 (E) 270999 /...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

I. INTRODUCTION

The Secretary-General has the honour to submit to the General Assembly andto the Security Council the curricula vitae of the candidates nominated bynational groups for the election of five judges of the International Court ofJustice, which will take place during the fifty-fourth session of the GeneralAssembly. A list of the candidates nominated for this election is contained indocument A/54/307-S/1999/941. The composition of the Court and the votingprocedures to be followed in the General Assembly and in the Security Councilare set out in a memorandum by the Secretary-General (A/54/305-S/1999/939).

II. CURRICULA VITAE

AL-KHASAWNEH, Awn Shawkat

(Jordan)

[Original: English]

Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh was born in Amman on 22 February 1950 and receivedhis primary and secondary education at the Islamic Educational College of Ammanand his university education at Cambridge University (Queens’ College) where heread history and law, and then did postgraduate work in international law.M.A. LL.M. (Cantab.).

He joined the Jordanian diplomatic service in 1975 and served as SecondSecretary, then First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Jordan to the UnitedNations in New York, 1976-1980. From 1980 to 1985, he worked in the Ministry ofForeign Affairs with special responsibility for international organizations andinternational law. In the years 1985-1990, he was Head of the Legal Departmentat the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1990, he was seconded to the Royal Courtwhere he worked as Legal Adviser to Crown Prince El-Hassan bin Talal. He wasgiven the rank of Ambassador in 1992, and in 1995, he was appointed Adviser tothe King and Adviser of the State on International Law with the rank ofMinister, and Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court, 1996-1998.

Mr. Al-Khasawneh has represented Jordan at 18 sessions of the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations (The Sixth (Legal) Committee) since 1976, and wasJordan’s alternate representative on the Security Council, 1981-1982. He was amember of most Jordanian delegations to meetings of the Arab League, theMovement of Non-Aligned Countries and the Organization of the Islamic Conferenceheld in the years 1980-1988. From 1991 to 1994, he was a member of, and LegalAdviser to, the Jordanian delegation to the peace negotiations in the MiddleEast.

In the field of the codification and progressive development ofinternational law, Mr. Al-Khasawneh represented Jordan at the followingconferences and committees:

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Ad Hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention against theTaking of Hostages, 1977-1980.

United Nations Conference on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties,Second Session, 1978.

United Nations Conference on Succession of States in Respect of State Property,Archives and Debts, 1982.

United Nations Conference on Treaties Between States and InternationalOrganizations or between International Organizations, 1986. He was electedChairman of the Drafting Committee.

Rome Conference on the drafting of a Convention for the Suppression of UnlawfulActs against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, 1988.

Elective offices

Member of the Arab International Law Commission, 1982-1989.

Member of the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection ofMinorities, Commission on Human Rights, 1984-1993.

Chairman of the Subcommission, 1993.

Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the human rightsdimensions of forcible population transfer.

Chairman of Commission IV, UNESCO General Conference, 1993.

Member of the International Law Commission since 1986.

Member of the Jordanian Royal Commission on Legislative and AdministrativeReform, 1994-1996.

Chairman of the Jordanian National Group on the Implementation of InternationalHumanitarian Law, 1988.

Publications

Submitted three reports on the human rights dimensions of forcible populationtransfers, to the Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protectionof Minorities, 1993-1997. The reports were approved by the Commission on HumanRights and the Economic and Social Council.

"General Principles and Methods for Executing a New Convention", inEnvironmental Protection and the Law of War . Glen Plant, ed. (London; New York;Bellhaven Press, 1992).

"The International Law Commission and Middle East Waters" in Water in the MiddleEast: Legal, Political and Commercial Implications . J. A. Allan and ChibliMallat, eds. (London; New York; I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1995).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Academic activities

Member of the International Law Association, Committee on Maritime Neutrality,1994.

Member of the Board of Editors, Palestine Yearbook of International Law .

Member of the Council of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Lectured and participated widely in academic seminars at various universities,including Oxford, Cambridge, London, Geneva and universities in Jordan.

Honours

Jordan: Istiqlal Order, First Class, 1993.

Jordan: Kawkab Order, First Class, 1996.

Jordan: Nahda Order, First Class, 1996.

France: Légion d’Honneur, Grand Officier, 1997.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

BALANDA, Mikuin-Leliel

(Democratic Republic of the Congo)

[Original: French]

Biographical data

Place and date of birth: Kinshasa, 12 September 1939.

Marital status: Married.

University studies and academic qualifications

Doctor of Laws, University of Brussels, 1965.

Special Diploma in International Law (two-year postgraduate course),University of Brussels, 1966.

Undergraduate studies in philosophy and literature, University of Liège,Belgium, 1961.

Secondary education

Classics (Latin, sciences), Collège des Pères Jésuites, Kiniati(1952-1958).

Posts held

University

Professor in the Faculty of Law of the National University of Zaire (nowUniversity of Kinshasa) (1976-present).

Professor at the Official University of the Congo (1970-1976).

Associate Professor at the Official University of the Congo (1968-1969).

Instructor at the Official University of the Congo (1967-1968).

Teaching courses on public international law, international organizationsand international relations (1967-present).

Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Zaire atthe time of the University’s establishment (1971-1973).

Director of the Institute of Advanced International Studies of the NationalUniversity of Zaire (1970-1972).

Dean of the Faculty of Economic, Political, Social and AdministrativeSciences of the Official University of the Congo (1970).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Bar

Avocat at the Court of Appeal of Lumumbashi (1967-1970).

Counsel for Société Nationale d’Assurances (1967-1970).

Judicial and other

Senior President of the Supreme Court of Justice, October 1986-May 1998.

Head of division of the Supreme Court of Justice, November 1978-October 1986.

Judge at the Supreme Court of Justice of the Congo, February 1970-November 1978.

Chairman of the Standing Committee on Reform of the Law of the Republic ofZaire, February 1987-1998.

Chairman of the Standing Subcommittee on Judicial Law, 1980-1987.

Member of the Standing Committee on Reform of the Law of the Republic ofZaire from its establishment in 1971 to 1998.

International posts

International civil servant at the Fonds Belgo-Congolais d’Amortissement etde Gestion, Brussels, 1965-1967.

Member of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law(UNCITRAL), 1968-1972.

Member of the Zairian delegation to the International Court of Justice atThe Hague in connection with the consideration by the Court of the questionof Western Sahara, July 1975.

Representative of Zaire in the Sixth Committee of the United NationsGeneral Assembly, 1978-1990.

Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, February 1981-present.

Member of the International Law Commission, 1982-1987.

Member of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa of theCommission on Human Rights, 1982-December 1994.

Chairman of the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa of theCommission on Human Rights, August 1987-December 1994.

Member of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, 1991-November 1998.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Vice-President of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, 1997-1998.

Coordinator for Central Africa of the research project on "Internationalhumanitarian law and African traditions", undertaken jointly by theInstitut Henri Dunant, Geneva, and the International Committee of the RedCross (ICRC).

Initiator of the Central African subregional colloquium on internationalhumanitarian law, held in 1987 and 1989 at Kinshasa, under the auspices ofICRC.

In collaboration with ICRC, initiator of the Seminar on InternationalHumanitarian Law, held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Kinshasa,1987-present.

Participation in international conferences

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the Conference of Heads of State ofCentral and East Africa, Lusaka, 1968.

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the fourth summit conference of theOrganization of African Unity, Kinshasa, 1968.

Participated in the United Nations General Assembly (1969, 1970, 1972,1975, 1978, 1980-1982, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1992-1994).

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the Committee on the Elimination ofRacial Discrimination at its twenty-first and twenty-second sessions(Geneva and New York, 1980).

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the Ministerial Conference of theOrganization of African Unity on the elaboration of the African Charter onHuman and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul, 1981.

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the meeting of Council of Ministersand the eighteenth summit conference of the Organization of African Unity,Nairobi, June 1981.

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the forty-third session of theCommission on Human Rights, Geneva, 1987; and at subregional sessions, in1990, 1993 and 1995.

Head of the delegation of Zaire to the conference of the Agency forCultural and Technical Cooperation (ACCT) on legal and judicialcooperation, Paris, 1986.

Head of the delegation of Zaire to the International Conference of HigherAdministrative Courts, Helsinki, 1989.

Member of the delegation of Zaire to the Nineteenth Congress of theInternational Institute of Law of the French-speaking Countries (IDEF),Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1988.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Participated in the Twentieth Congress of IDEF, Paris, 1989.

Participated in the seminar on human rights organized by the InternationalCommission of Jurists and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’Rights, Ouagadougou, March-April 1995.

Delegate to the Conference of Independent Experts, organized by theInternational Commission of Jurists, on the establishment of an AfricanCourt of Human and Peoples’ Rights, Cape Town, South Africa, July-August 1995.

Participated in the congress that established the Association des CoursConstitutionelles des Pays ayant le Français en Partage (AAPF), Paris,April 1997.

Member of the group of international observers of the legislative electionsin Cameroon (May 1997), on behalf of the International Organization of LaFrancophonie.

Delegate to the second World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna,14-15 June 1993.

Principal publications

Human rights and international humanitarian law

"The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights", AustrianInternational Law Journal , 1984.

"Apartheid and the crime of genocide", United Nations, Geneva,August 1984 (E/CN.4/AC.22/1984/810 and Add.1).

Le droit à la vie , essay published by the Association of InternationalConsultants on Human Rights (Brussels, Bruylant, 1986).

Le Protocole de Genève du 17 juin 1925 et l’interdiction de l’emploides gaz asphyxiants , United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research(UNIDIR), Geneva, 1985.

Problématique du projet du code des crimes contre la paix et lasécurité de l’humanité , paper delivered at the nineteenth session of aseminar held at the thirty-fifth session of the International LawCommission, July 1983.

"Les droits de l’homme dans l’administration de la justice", Review ofthe Faculty of Law of the University of Kinshasa (in press).

Course on regional integration in Africa taught as part of a seminarorganized by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR), Yaoundé, November 1984.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Droits de l’homme et droit international dans la crise de la partieest du Zaïre , 1997.

Droits de l’homme et droits des peuples, convergences et dichotomie,1997 .

International public law and international relations

Fonds belgo-congolais d’amortissement et de gestion , contributions tothe study of international public institutions, 225 pp. (Publicationsde l’Université officielle du Congo, 1968, vol. XXII).

Les fonctions diplomatiques et internationales (undergraduatetextbook, 1969, Official University of the Congo).

Histoire des relations internationales (undergraduate textbook, 1969,Official University of the Congo).

Droit consulaire et style diplomatique (undergraduate textbook, 1969,Official University of the Congo).

Les organisations internationales , 4e éd. (undergraduate textbook,Faculty of Law, University of Kinshasa, 1997).

Droit international de la coopération (graduate-level textbook,University of Kinshasa, 1985).

"Le Statut de la loi étrangère", in Revue juridique du Zaïre , 1985.

"La responsabilité pénale internationale des Etats et l’oeuvre de laCommission du droit international de l’ONU", in Revue africaine dedroit international .

Organisations internationales (in press, 1999).

Constitutional and judicial law

Nouveau droit constitutionnel zairois et le droit international ,350 pp., Paris, Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1972.

L’organisation judiciaire traditionnelle au Zaïre au Lac Léopold II(Centre for Juridical History and Ethnology, E. Solvay Institute ofSociology, Free University of Brussels, 1969).

"Les tribunaux de paix et leur évolution au Zaïre", in Revue juridiquedu Zaïre , February 1985.

"Compétence et procédure administrative de la Cour Suprême deJustice", paper delivered at the International Conference of HigherAdministrative Courts, Helsinki, June 1989.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"Les offenses au chef de l’Etat et la Cour suprême de Justice", inRevue juridique du Zaïre , 1996.

Other publications

"Contrat d’entreprise clé-en-mains, le cas du Zaïre", in Revue del’IDEF , Paris, 1988.

"Contrat de travail au Zaïre", in Revue de l’IDEF , Paris, 1989.

Membership in professional bodies

Member of the Société Française de Droit International.

Member of the International Association of Criminal Law (France).

Languages

French: official language.

English: fluent (spoken and written).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

GUILLAUME, Gilbert

(France)

[Original: French]

Born in Bois-Colombes, France, on 4 December 1930.

Academic qualifications

Licence en droit (Bachelor’s degree in law), University of Paris.

Diplôme, Paris Institute of Political Studies.

Diplôme d’études supérieures (postgraduate degree) in political economy andeconomics, University of Paris.

Studies at the National School of Administration (ENA).

Current position

Judge, International Court of Justice (14 September 1987-present).

Previous positions

Member of the Council of State as Commissioner of Audit (1957), then asRapporteur (1963) and, most recently, Councillor of State (until 1996).

Legal adviser to the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation (1968-1979); Frenchrepresentative on the Legal Committee of the International Civil AviationOrganization (ICAO) (1968-1979) and Chairman of the Committee (1971-1975);represented France on the Legal Commission of the ICAO Assembly (1968, 1971,1974 and 1977); delegate to the diplomatic conferences on the suppression ofunlawful seizure of aircraft (The Hague, 1970), the suppression of unlawful actsagainst the safety of civil aviation (Montreal, 1971), and air safety (Rome,1973); President of the Diplomatic Conference on the Liability of the Carrier(Montreal, 1975); head of the French delegations to the diplomatic conferenceson the liability of the carrier vis-à-vis third parties (Montreal, 1978) and onthe non-use of force against civil aircraft (Montreal, 1984).

Chairman of the Conciliation Commission, Organisation for Economic Cooperationand Development (1973-1978); member of the European Space Agency Appeals Board(1975-1978); Director of Legal Affairs, Organisation for Economic Cooperationand Development (1979).

Director of Legal Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1979-1987).

Agent for France in numerous cases before the Court of Justice of the EuropeanCommunities, the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights andin various arbitration proceedings.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Represented France on the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine(1979-1987); Chairman of the Commission (1981-1982).

Represented France on the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee (AALCC)(1980-1987).

Delegate of France to the General Assembly of the United Nations (SixthCommittee) (1982-1987); head of the French delegation to the Third UnitedNations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1982), the United Nations Conferenceon Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts(Vienna, 1983) and the United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties betweenStates and International Organizations or between International Organizations(Vienna, 1986).

Arbitration activities

Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (since 1980).

Member of the Court of Arbitration of the Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Designated arbitrator by the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization(EUTELSAT), ICAO, the International Chamber of Commerce, the Kuala LumpurRegional Centre for Commercial Arbitration and the African Regional Centre forCommercial Arbitration, Cairo, the two latter bodies established under theauspices of AALCC.

Conciliator and arbitrator, International Centre for Settlement of InvestmentDisputes (ICSID).

Chairman of the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization (EUTELSAT)Appeals Board.

Teaching activities

Former lecturer at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Paris; theNational School of Administration; the National School of Civil Aviation; andthe International Institute of Public Administration.

Publications

"Les commissions de recours des organisations européennes coordonnées",Etudes et documents , 1969, p. 73.

"L’évolution du système monétaire international et l’application desconventions sur la responsabilité contractuelle", Revue française de droitaérien , 1975, p. 137.

"Le Comité juridique de l’Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale(OACI)", Revista del Centro de Investigación y Difusión AeronáuticoEspacial (Montevideo), 1976, p. 19.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Le terrorisme aérien (Paris, Pedone, 1977).

"Location, affrêtement et banalisation d’aéronefs en exploitationinternationale", Revue française de droit aérien , 1978, p. 395.

"La responsabilité des services de contrôle de la circulation aérienne",Annales de droit aérien et spatial (McGill University, Montreal), vol. III,1978.

"L’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques etl’évolution récente de ses moyens d’action", Annuaire français de droitinternational , 1979, p. 75.

Antarctic Resources Policy: Scientific, Legal and Political Issues(Cambridge University Press), p. 185.

"La délimitation des espaces maritimes français", Perspectives du droit dela mer à l’issue de la Troisième Conférence des Nations Unies (Pedone,1983).

Les forces de maintien de la paix des Nations Unies: problèmes juridiques ,(Académie diplomatique internationale, 1984).

"La non-intervention dans les affaires intérieures des Etats (article 2,paragraphe 7, de la Charte des Nations Unies)", in La Charte des NationsUnies - Commentaire , under the direction of J. P. Cot and A. Pellet(Economica, Bruylant, 1985, 2nd ed., 1991).

Codification in International Law (University College, London, 1986),p. 875.

"Preuves et mesures d’instruction devant la juridiction internationalepermanente", in La juridiction internationale permanente (Paris, Pedone,1987).

"Liberalización: la comunidad económica europea. Experiencia yperspectivas" Conferencia latinoamericana, Transporte aéreo internacional yactividades en el espacio ultraterrestre, Mexico, D.F., agosto,August 1988.

"Le Tunnel sous la Manche. Le cadre juridique. Le traité et laconcession", Annales des mines , 1988, No. 5, p. 15.

"La France et les détroits internationaux", Académie de Marine:Communications et mémoires , 1989, No. 2, p. 5.

"La Cour internationale de Justice. Crise ou renouveau?" Quatrièmeconférence commémorative Louis Bloomfield. (Montreal, Association de droitinternational, 1989).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"La direction des affaires juridiques du Ministère des Affairesétrangères", in Guy Ladreit de Lacharrière et la politique juridiqueextérieure de la France (Masson, 1989), p. 167.

"Terrorisme et droit international", Recueil des cours (Hague Academy ofInternational Law, 1989), III, vol. 215, p. 287-416.

"Souveraineté et juridictions internationales", in La souveraineté à l’aubedu III e millénaire (Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1990), p. 54.

"Détroits internationaux et droit aérien", Annales de droit aérien etspatial (McGill University, Montreal), vol. XV, 1990, p. 75.

"Sanctions économiques et blocus de l’Irak", Communications et mémoires(Académie de Marine, 1990, No. 3).

"L’Antarctique et let droit de la mer", Communications et mémoires(Académie de Marine, 1990-1991, No. 3).

"La politique des Etats à l’égard du règlement par tierces parties",Thesaurus acroasium (Salonica, 1991), p. 348-376.

"L’unification allemande - Succession aux traités et droit communautaire",in L’Europe et le droit, Mélanges en hommage au Professeur Boulois (Paris,Dalloz, 1991), p. 311.

"Le statut de l’Antarctique. Réflexions sur quelques problèmes récents",in Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur René-Jean Dupuy (1991), p. 171.

"Droit international et action diplomatique. Le cas de France", Journaleuropéen de droit international , 2 (1), 1991:136.

"Conflicts of National Competition Laws", in Beyond 1992, Implications andProspects for World Action , IATA symposium (Budapest, 1991), p. 38.

"L’administration de la justice internationale", Revue françaised’administration publique , 1991, (57):135.

Les subdivisions internes des juridictions internationales (Institut deshautes études internationales, Pedone, 1992).

"La compétence universelle. Formes anciennes et nouvelles", in Mélanges etl’honneur du Professeur Levasseur (1992), p. 22-36.

"L’ingérence humanitaire. Inventaire du droit positif", Revue des deuxmondes, June 1993.

Les grandes crises internationales et le droit (318 p.) (collection Points-Essais, éditions du Seuil, 1994). Published in Spanish as Las GrandesCrisis Internacionales y el Derecho (Barcelona, Ariel, 1995).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"Transformations du droit international et jurisprudence de la Courinternationale de Justice", Les nouveaux aspects du droit international ,colloque de Tunis, April 1994 (Paris, Pedone, 1994), p. 175.

"Les perspectives du droit de la mer à la suite de l’entrée en vigueur dela convention de Montego Bay", Communications et Mémoires de l’Académie deMarine , 1994-1995 (1):83-95.

"Le droit à la vie. L’article 2 de la Convention européenne des droits del’homme et son Protocole No. 6", in La convention européenne des droits del’homme (Economica, 1995), p. 143.

"Les juges français à la Cour internationale de Justice", in La France etl’ONU depuis 1945 (Paris, Editions Seuil, 1995), p. 217.

"Enforcement of decisions of the International Court of Justice", inPerspectives on International Law dedicated to Judge Manfred Lachs (KluwerInternational, 1995), p. 275.

"The Future of International Judicial Institutions", International andComparative Law Quarterly (London, 1995), p. 849.

"La France et la Cour internationale de Justice", in L’internationalitédans les institutions et le droit: études offertes à Alain Plantey (Paris,Pedone, 1995), p. 119.

"Les traités devant les formations administratives du Conseil d’Etat", inMélanges en l’honneur de Guy Braibant (Paris, Dalloz, 1996), p. 353.

"La Cour internationale de Justice - quelques propositions concrètes àl’occasion due Cinquantenaire", Revue générale de droit internationalpublic , 2/1996, p. 323.

"De l’exécution des décisions de la Cour internationale de Justice", Revuesuisse de droit internationale et de droit européen , 4/1997, p. 431.

"La crise financière des Nations Unies et la Cour internationale deJustice", L’Observateur des Nations Unies , 1998.

"Le terrorisme international", Répertoire international Dalloz , 1998.

"L’introduction et l’exécution dans les ordres juridiques des Etats desrésolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies prises en vertu duchapitre VII de la Charte - Le cas de la France", Académie internationalede droit comparé, XV e congrès, Bristol, Revue internationale de droitcomparé , 2/1998, p. 539.

"Le droit au juge", Colloque de l’Institut du droit de la paix et dudéveloppement de l’Université de Nice, Conclusions générales (Librairiegénérale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1998).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"De l’indépendance des membres de la Cour internationale de Justice", inMélanges en l’honneur de Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1998).

"La ’cause commune’ devant la Cour internationale de Justice", in Mélangesen l’honneur de Mohammed Bedjaoui (in press).

"Les déclarations jointes aux décisions de la Cour internationale deJustice", in Mélanges en l’honneur de José Maria Ruda (in press).

Le juge international et la codification - La codification en droitinternational (Paris, Pedone, in press).

"Le désistement et le non-lieu dans la jurisprudence de la Courinternationale de Justice", in Essays in honour of Bengt Broms(forthcoming).

Scholarly activities

Member of the Institute of International Law.

Vice-President of the French Society of International Law.

Honorary Chairman of the French Society of Air and Space Law.

President of the French branch of the International Law Association (ILA).

Member of the International Institute of Space Law.

Member of the International Institute of Law of the French-Speaking Countries(IDEF).

Member of the Naval Academy.

Member of the Air and Space Academy.

Member of the Scientific Board of Revue générale de droit international public .

Member of the Editorial Board of Annuaire français de droit international .

Chairman of the Board of Revue français de droit aérien et spatial .

Decorations

Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Chevalier of the National Order of Merit.

Commander of Arts and Letters.

Chevalier du Mérite Agricole.

Chevalier du Mérite Maritime.

Aeronautics Medal.

Various foreign decorations.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

HIGGINS, Rosalyn

(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

[Original: English]

Born in London on 2 June 1937.

Married, one daughter, one son.

Education

B.A. (Cantab) 1st Class (1959).

LL.B. (Cantab) 1st Class (1962).

JS.D. (Yale) (1962).

M.A. (Cantab) (1962).

Honorary doctorates from the universities of Paris XI (1980), Dundee (1992),Durham and the London School of Economics (1995), Cambridge, Kent, Essex,Sussex, Greenwich and London City University (1996), Birmingham, Leicester andGlasgow (1997).

Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) Fellowship (1959-1961).

Graduate Fellow, Yale Law School (1959-1961).

Brief summary of career

Judge of the International Court of Justice (12 July 1995-present).

United Kingdom Interne, Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations (1958).

Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (1960).

Junior Fellow in international studies, London School of Economics (1961-1963).

Staff specialist in international law, Royal Institute of International Affairs(1963-1974).

Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics (1974-1978).

Professor of International Law, University of Kent at Canterbury (1978-1981).

Professor of International Law, University of London (1981-1995).

Queen’s Counsel (1986); Bencher of the Inner Temple (1989).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Member of the Committee on Human Rights under the International Covenant onCivil and Political Rights (1984-1995); Special Rapporteur for new cases(1989-1991).

Associé of the Institut de droit international (1987); member (1991). Author ofthe Institut Report on "Legal Consequences for Member States of the non-fulfilment by international organisations of their obligations to third parties"(1995).

Delivered the General Course on International Law at the Hague Academy ofInternational Law (1991).

Chairman, Public International Law Advisory Board, British Institute forInternational and Comparative Law (1992-present).

Honorary Vice-President of the American Society of International Law (1993).

Member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law(1975-1985), British Yearbook of International Law and Journal of Energy andNatural Resources Law .

Queen’s Counsel and Bencher of the Inner Temple, practising in publicinternational law and petroleum law; practice in the English Courts and beforevarious international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice,the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of the European Communities.

Counsel for the International Tin Council in a series of cases in the UnitedKingdom.

Counsel in the following cases in the International Court of Justice:

- Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad );

- Case concerning East Timor (Portugal v. Australia );

- Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 MontrealConvention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan ArabJamahiriya v. United Kingdom );

- Case concerning Gab cíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia ).

President, Tribunal of the International Centre for Settlement of InvestmentDisputes (Amco v. Indonesia ).

Since 1995, has played an active part in the work of the International Court ofJustice in both its judicial and administrative work.

Since joining the Court, has lectured to audiences in various countries aboutthe work of the ICJ.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Honours and awards

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1961).

British Academy Award (1977-1978).

Volumes I and II of United Nations Peacekeeping received the 1971 Certificate ofMerit of the American Society of International Law.

Problems and Process received the 1995 Certificate of Merit of the AmericanSociety of International Law.

Wolfgang Friedman Medal for Services to International Law, Columbia University(1985).

Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1988).

Harold Weil Medal, New York University (1995).

Dame Commander of the British Empire (1995).

Yale Law School Medal of Merit (1997) and Manley O. Hudson Medal (1998).

Honorary Life Membership Award, American Society of International Law (1992).

Publications

The Development of International Law through the Political Organs of the UnitedNations (1963).

Conflict of Interests: International Law in a Divided World (1965).

The Administration of the United Kingdom Foreign Policy through the UnitedNations (1966).

UN Peacekeeping: Documents and Commentary . Vol. I. Middle East, 1969.Vol. II. Asia, 1970. Vol. III. Africa, 1980. Vol. IV. Europe, 1981.

Law in Movement - Essays in Memory of John McMahon (co-edited with JamesFawcett) (1974).

"The Taking of Property by the State: Recent Developments in InternationalLaw", Recueil des cours (Hague Academy of International Law), vol. 176, 1982.

Liberté de circulation des personnes en droit international (co-edited withMaurice Flory) (1988).

"International law and the avoidance, containment and resolution of disputes"(General Course on Public International Law), Recueil des cours (Hague Academyof International Law), vol. 230, 1991.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It (1994).

Various books and articles on international legal theory, United Nations law,the use of force, State immunity and diplomatic immunity, human rights andinternational petroleum law.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

PARRA-ARANGUREN, Gonzalo

(Venezuela)

[Original: Spanish]

Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren was born in Caracas on 5 December 1928. Heobtained a degree in political science from the Central University of Venezuela,graduating summa cum laude (1950); he then took a postgraduate course at theInter-American Law Institute, New York University, to obtain a Master’s degreein comparative law and jurisprudence (1950-1951); in 1955 he obtained a Doctorof Laws degree ("Doktor iuris") cum laude from the Ludwig-Maximileans-Universität in Munich, Germany.

He is a professor at the Central University of Venezuela, where he has beenteaching a course in private international law since 1956; he has also taughtthat same course at Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas since 1957.

He was a judge in the Second Court of First Instance (commercial matters),federal district and state of Miranda, located in Caracas (1958-1971), and wasfirst associate judge (1988-1992) in the Chamber of Cassation (civil, commercialand labour matters) of the Supreme Court of Justice. In 1992, he was electedalternate judge. He has acted as arbitrator, both in Venezuela and abroad, inthe latter case regarding private international commercial matters; on severaloccasions he has testified in foreign courts as an expert on Venezuelan law.

He was a member of the commission of inquiry appointed in 1985 by theGoverning Body of the International Labour Office to consider the implementationby the Federal Republic of Germany of the ILO Discrimination (Employment andOccupation) Convention (1958, No. 111); the report was submitted in 1986, but hedid not endorse its recommendations.

He has been a member of the national group for Venezuela at the PermanentCourt of Arbitration at The Hague since 1985.

He was a member of the legislative committees that drafted the section onVenezuelan nationality in connection with the drafting of the Constitutionapproved in 1961; the draft law on regulations on private international law(1963); and its subsequent revision in 1965; and revised the sections of theCommercial Code dealing with credit instruments and bankruptcy respectively(1963-1965).

He has been a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Ministry ofForeign Affairs (1984-present) and in 1990 was named to the Legal AdvisoryCouncil of the National Congress.

In 1966, he was elected a member of the Academy of Political and SocialSciences of Caracas and was President of the Academy from 1993 to 1995. He is amember of the Institute of International Law (elected in 1979); a correspondingmember of the Uruguayan International Law Association (1978); a correspondingmember of the Argentine International Law Association (1981); a correspondingmember of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Córdoba, ArgentineRepublic (1982); an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Legislation of Granada, Spain (1994); a corresponding member of the MexicanAcademy of Jurisprudence and Legislation corresponding to that of Spain (1994);and an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation,Madrid (1994).

He was a member of the Governing Council of the International Institute forthe Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) from 1988 to 1993.

He has been on the editorial board of Revista del Colegio de Abogados delDistrito Federal , Caracas, on several occasions; has been a member of theeditorial board of the Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la UniversidadCatólica Andrés Bello , Caracas, since its establishment; was a member of theEditorial Board of the journal Actas Procesales del Derecho Vivo , Caracas; is onthe Advisory Board of the Revista de Derecho Mercantil , Caracas; and, since1987, has been a correspondent for the Netherlands International Law Review .

He taught the general course on private international law at the HagueAcademy of International Law, 1988, and has given lectures abroad: in Curaçao,at the commemoration of the centenary of the introduction of codification andestablishment of the Court of Justice (1969); at the course on international law(Rio de Janeiro, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1988 and 1992), organized by theInter-American Juridical Committee and the Fundación Gétulio Vargas; at theHague Academy of International Law, on "Recent Developments in Conflict of LawsConventions in Latin America" (1979); at the International Law Days inSalamanca, Spain (November 1992); at the seminar on principles for internationalcommercial contracts (Rome, December 1993); at the study encounter on lawjournals and books to promote unity of the Latin American legal system (Rome,December 1993); at the Eighth World Conference of the International Society ofFamily Law (Cardiff, England, June 1994); at the Congress on Children on theMove, organized by the Netherlands Committee of the International Year of theFamily in collaboration with the Hague Conference on Private International Law(October 1994); and at the International Seminar on Adoption, an Act of Love,organized by the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (Bogotá, June 1995).

He was Co-Chairman of the Committee on Private International Law at the16th meeting of the Inter-American Bar Association (Caracas, 1969). Hesubmitted a paper at the first Latin American International Law Day at theAndrés Bello Catholic University (Caracas, 1979) and at the twelfth congress ofthe Instituto Hispano-Luso-Americano de Derecho Internacional (Mérida,Venezuela, 1980).

He represented Venezuela at the International Association of Legal Scienceand the German Society for Comparative Law (Treveris, Federal Republic ofGermany, 1961); and at the third meeting of the Joint Venezuelan-SpanishCommission (Madrid, 1974).

In the western hemisphere, he represented Venezuela at the firstInter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-I,Panama, 1975), where he was Vice-Chairman of the Second Committee; at the secondsuch Conference (CIDIP-II, Montevideo, 1979), where he was Chairman of theSecond Committee; at the third and fourth such Conferences (held, respectively,in La Paz in 1984, and Montevideo in 1989), where he was Chairman of the Second

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Committee; and at the fifth such Conference (Mexico City, 1994), where he wasChairman of the First Committee.

He was a member of the Committee of Experts which met in Washington, D.C.in 1980 in preparation for the Third Inter-American Specialized Conference onPrivate International Law (CIDIP-III) and of the Committee of Experts which metat Tucson, Arizona, in 1993 in preparation for the Fifth Inter-AmericanSpecialized Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-V).

He represented Venezuela at the Hague Conference on Private InternationalLaw: thirteenth session (1976-1977); fourteenth session (1980); fifteenthsession (1984); special session (1985); sixteenth session (1988); SpecialCommission to prepare for the seventeenth session (1990-1992); seventeenthsession (1993); working group and Special Commission (April and October 1994,respectively) to study the application of the Convention of 1993 to minors whoare refugees; and the Special Commission (second meeting, June 1995) on theprotection of minors and incompetent adults. He was elected one of the fiveVice-Chairmen at the fifteenth and sixteenth sessions.

He was Rapporteur of the Special Commission and of the seventeenth sessionof the Hague Conference on Private International Law and, in pursuance of thosefunctions, prepared the preliminary report (1992) and the explanatory report onthe Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect ofInter-country Adoption of 29 May 1993.

He has published several books and numerous articles on the law ofnationality, private international law, in the strict sense, and internationalcivil procedural law in Venezuelan and foreign journals.

In 1996 he was elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice tocomplete the term of Judge Ándrés Aguilar.

Publications

Books

Die Regel ’Locus Regit Actum’ und die Formen der Testamente (Munich, 1955).

La Nacionalidad Venezolana Originaria , vols. I and II (Caracas, 1964).

La Constitución de 1830 y los Venezolanos por Naturalizacion (Caracas, 1969).

Codificación del Derecho Internacional Privado en América (Caracas, 1982).

La Nacionalidad Venezolana: I. Antecedentes Históricos (Caracas, 1983).

La Influencia del Matrimonio sobre la Nacionalidad de la Mujer en la LegislaciónVenezolana (Caracas, 1983).

La Nacionalidad Venezolana: II. Problemas Actuales (Caracas, 1983).

Monografías Selectas de Derecho Internacional Privado (Caracas, 1984).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Ensayos de Derecho Procesal Civil Internacional (Caracas, 1986).

Curso General de Derecho Internacional Privado (Problemas Selectos ) (Caracas,1991).

Curso General de Derecho Internacional Privado. Problemas Selectos y OtrosEstudios (Caracas, 1992).

Miscellaneous articles

"El concepto de Fundación" (not published), Caracas, 1950.

"Los derechos sucesorales del cónyuge sobreviviente", in Revista de la Facultadde Derecho de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (RFDUCV), Caracas, 1956,No. 9, pp. 41-52.

"Proyecto del Título sobre Nacionalidad en la Constitución Venezolana de 1961"(in collaboration with Joaquín Sánchez-Covisa), Caracas, 1959.

"La Doble Nacionalidad", RFDUCV, Caracas, 1962, No. 235, pp. 47-76; Revista deDerecho , Quito, Ecuador, 1964, No. 2.

"La nacionalidad venezolana originaria en la Constitución del 23 de enerode 1961", in Boletín de la Biblioteca Rojas Astudillo , Caracas, 1963, vol. 13,pp. 7-108.

"Origenes sociológico-jurídicos de la nacionalidad venezolana", RFDUCV, Caracas,1963, No. 24, pp. 79-120.

"Antecedentes del Código de Comercio", in Código de Comercio de Venezuela .Concordado y Anotado , published by Oscar Lazo, Caracas, 1963.

"Proyecto de Ley de Normas de Derecho Internacional Privado" (in collaborationwith Roberto Goldschmidt and Joaquín Sánchez-Covisa), Caracas, 1963.

"Origen y evolución del sistema angloamericano de derecho internacionalprivado", in Revista de Derecho y Legislación , Caracas, 1964, vol. 53,Nos. 641-643, pp. 187-262.

"Prueba de la capacidad matrimonial del extranjero en Venezuela", in Revista dela Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (RFDUCAB),Caracas, 1965, No. 1, pp. 118-165.

"Proyecto de Ley de Normas de Derecho Internacional Privado" (in collaborationwith Roberto Goldschmidt and Joaquín Sánchez-Covisa), revised version,Caracas, 1965.

"La función de la reciprocidad en el sistema venezolano del exequatur ", RFDUCV,Caracas, 1965, No. 31, pp. 39-122.

"Antecedentes de la codificación civil y el derecho internacional privadovenezolano (1810-1862)", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1966, No. 2, pp. 77-143.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"El régimen de la nacionalidad derivada y la Constitución del 31 de diciembrede 1958", in Revista del Colegio de Abogados del Distrito Federal (RCADF),Caracas, 1967, No. 132, pp. 106-160.

"La nacionalidad venezolana de los inmigrados en el siglo XIX", RFDUCAB,Caracas, 1969, No. 7, pp. 27-128.

"La nacionalidad venezolana en la Constitución de 1857", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1970,No. 10, pp. 9-102.

"La influencia del matrimonio sobre la nacionalidad de la mujer en el proyectode Código Civil publicado en 1869", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1970, No. 11, pp. 9-54.

"Los problemas de la nacionalidad venezolana durante la guerra federal", Revistade la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del Zulia , Maracaibo, 1970,pp. 189-273.

"Los preceptos atributivos de nacionalidad en la Constitución de 1864", RFDUCAB,Caracas, 1971, No. 12, pp. 9-128.

"El tratamiento procesal del derecho extranjero en los países de la Américadel Sur", in Actas Procesales del Derecho Vivo (APDV), Caracas, 1971, No. 2,pp. 19-52; Boletin de la Academia de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (BACPS),Caracas, 1971, Año XXXII, No. 47, pp. 41-72.

"La Ley de naturalización de 1865 y la Constitución Federal de 1864", RFDUCAB,Caracas, 1972, No. 13, pp. 9-116.

"La citación de los no presentes en la República", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1973,pp. 9-147.

"Nuevos antecedentes sobre la codificación civil venezolana (1810-1862)", inLa Codificación de Páez. Tomo I (Código Civil de 1862 ), Caracas, 1974.

"Los precedentes venezolanos del Código Bustamante", RFDUCAB, 1974, No. 17,pp. 9-118.

"La revisión del Código Bustamante", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1974, No. 18, pp. 9-132.

"El Código Bustamante: su vigencia en América y su posible ratificación porEspaña", in Libro Homenaje al Doctor Luis Loreto , Caracas, 1975, pp. 201-282.

"Las obligaciones extracontractuales en derecho internacional privado", RFDUCAB,Caracas, 1975, No. 20, pp. 9-65.

"La Segunda Conferencia Especializada Interamericana sobre Derecho internacionalprivado (CIDIP-II)", APDV, Caracas, 1979, vol. XXXII, Nos. 94-96, pp. 83-147.

"El impacto del proceso de integración económica Latinoamericana sobre lasnormas convencionales de Derecho internacional privado", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1979,No. 26, pp. 9-62.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"Recent Developments of Conflict of Laws Conventions in Latin America", inRecueil des Cours , vol. 164, 1979 III, pp. 55-170.

"La Comunidad Hispano-Luso-Filipina y la Convención Interamericana de NormasGenerales de Derecho Internacional Privado (Montevideo, 1979)", Madrid, 1979.

"La Convención Interamericana de Normas Generales de Derecho InternacionalPrivado (Montevideo, 1979)", in Anuario Jurídico Interamericano, 1979 ,Washington, D.C., 1979, pp. 157-186.

"La nacionalidad venezolana de los hijos adoptivos", RCADF, Caracas, 1980,No. 142, pp. 13-58.

"Las seis convenciones sucritas en Panamá (1975) sobre derecho internacionalprivado", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1980, No. 27, pp. 9-40.

"Los efectos de la naturalización venezolana del padre sobre los hijos menoresde edad", RCADF, Caracas, 1980, No. 143, pp. 15-80.

"Las tentativas de codificación del derecho internacional privado en lacomunidad Hispano-Luso-Americana y las Filipinas", APDV, Caracas, 1980,vol. XXXIV, Nos. 100-102, pp. 161-190.

"La celebración del matrimonio conforme al derecho internacional privadovenezolano", RCADF, Caracas, 1981, No. 144, pp. 11-116.

"Perspectiva histórica de los efectos de la naturalización venezolana delprogenitor sobre sus hijos menores de edad", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1981, No. 28,pp. 9-151.

"Análisis histórico de los efectos automáticos del matrimonio sobre lanacionalidad de la mujer casada en Venezuela (1821-1947)", RFDUCAB, Caracas,1982, No. 29, pp. 9-129; RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1982, No. 30, pp. 9-134.

"Proyecto de Convención Interamericana sobre Competencia en la EsferaInternacional para la eficacia extraterritorial de las sentencias extranjeras",in Curso de Derecho Internacional , vol. I, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 427-444.

"Proyecto de Protocolo Adicional a la Convención Interamericana sobre Recepciónde Pruebas en el Extranjero, aprobada por la CIDIP-I en Panamá en 1975", inCurso de Derecho Internacional , vol. I, Washington, D.C., 1983, pp. 445-459.

"Das venezolanische Adoptionsgesetz vom 16. August 1983", (German translationby Dr. Erik Jayme), in Praxis des internationalen privat- und Verfahrensrechts ,Regensburg, vol. 4, 1984, pp. 230-231.

"La influencia del matrimonio sobre la nacionalidad venezolana de la mujer en laConstitución del 23 de enero de 1961", in Libro Homenaje al DoctorEloy Lares Martínez , Caracas, 1984, vol. II, pp. 1007-1085.

"El juicio previo de exequatur y la eficacia de las sentencias extranjeras enVenezuela", RFDUCAB, Caracas, 1984, No. 1, pp. 9-149.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"Los trabajos preparatorios de la Tercera Conferencia EspecializadaInteramericana sobre Derecho Internacional Privado (La Paz, 1984)", RFDUCAB,Caracas, 1984, No. 32, pp. 73-112: Revista Análisis , Caracas, 1984, No. 206,pp. 1-28.

"La Tercera Conferencia Especializada Interamericana sobre Derecho InternacionalPrivado (La Paz, 1985)", RFDUCAB, 1985, No. 33, pp. 9-112; 1985, No. 34,pp. 9-99.

"La codificación global del derecho internacional privado americano (1826-1940)"in Cuadernos de Derecho Público , No. 8, Mérida, Venezuela, 1987, pp. 81-99.

"Autoridades competentes para permitir eficacia extraterritorial a los actosextranjeros en Venezuela", Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas yPolíticas de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (RFCJUCV), 1985, No. 64,pp. 11-116.

"Codification in America, with particular reference to the Third SpecializedInter-American Conference on Private International Law (CIDIP-II) (La Paz,1984)", in International Law at the Time of its Codification. Essays in Honourof Roberto Ago , vol. IV, Milan, 1987, pp. 227-247.

"El derecho procesal civil internacional venezolano y su reforma en 1986", inRevista del Colegio de Abogados del Estado Nueva Esparta , Caracas, 1986, No. 1,pp. 23-51; Conferencias sobre el Código de Procedimiento Civil , Caracas, 1986,pp. 145-170; RFDUCAB, 1987, No. 38, pp. 187-214.

"Legislación uniforme sobre la compraventa internacional de mercaderías",RFDUCAB, 1986, No. 35, pp. 9-89.

"La Conferencia de La Haya sobre Derecho Internacional Privado", RFDUCAB, 1987,No. 37, pp. 169-298.

"La codificación global del derecho internacional americano (1826-1940)",Cuadernos de Derecho Público , Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de CienciasJurídicas y Políticas, Departamento de Derecho Público, Mérida, Venezuela, 1987,No. 8, pp. 81-99.

"La existencia y la desaparición de las personas físicas en el derechointernacional privado venezolano", RFCJUCV, 1988, No. 69, pp. 957.

"Die venezolanische Zivilprozessordnung von 1987 - InternationalesZivilprozessrecht", (German translation by Erik Jayme and EugenioHernández-Bretón), in Praxis des internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts ,Regensburg, 1989, pp. 326-328.

"General Course of Private International Law: Selected Problems", in Recueildes Cours de l’Académie de Droit International (La Haye ), vol. 210, 1988-III,pp. 9-223.

"La solicitud para obtener el exequatur de las sentencias extranjeras enVenezuela", RFDUCAB, 1988, Nos. 39-40, pp. 245-359.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"The Fourth Inter-American Specialized Conference on Private International Law(CIDIP-IV, Montevideo, 9-15 July 1989)", in Netherlands International LawReview , vol. XXXVI, 1989, pp. 269-274; Conflits et harmonisation - Kollision undVereinheitlichung - Conflicts and Harmonization. Mélanges en l’honneurd’Alfred von Overbeck , Fribourg, Switzerland, 1990, pp. 155-175.

"La Cuarta Conferencia Interamericana sobre Derecho Internacional Privado(CIDIP-IV, Montevideo, 9-15 July 1989)", RFCJPUCV, 1990, No. 75, pp. 97-186.

"La Convención Interamericana sobre Restitución Internacional de Menores", inXV Jornadas. Dr. J. M. Domínquez Escovar. Derecho de Familia. Barquisimeto,3 al 6 de enero de 1990 ", Barquisimeto, Estado Lara, 1990, pp. 245-257; 200 Añosdel Colegio de Abogados. Libro Homenaje , Tomo II, Caracas, 1989, pp. 307-324.

"La Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre Letras de Cambio y PagarésInternacionales", RFDUCAB, 1991, No. 41, pp. 11-235.

"El reenvio en el derecho internacional privado venezolano", RFCJPUCV, 1991,No. 79, pp. 139-240.

"Las recientes modificaciones del derecho internacional privado en América",RFDUCAB, 1991, No. 43, pp. 344-357.

"The Latest Developments of Private International Law in America", inNetherlands International Law Review , vol. XXXIX, 1992, pp. 229-241.

"International Cooperation and Protection of Children in respect of IntercountryAdoption. Preliminary draft convention adopted by the Special Commission andreport by G. Parra-Aranguren. Preliminary document No. 7 of September 1992 forthe attention of the seventeenth session", The Hague, 1992.

"El Centenario de la Conferencia de La Haya de Derecho Internacional Privado",RFCJPUCV, 1992, No. 85, pp. 75-99.

"The Centenary of the Hague Conference on Private International Law", Études deDroit international en l’honneur de Pierre Lalive , Basel-Frankfurt am Main,1993, pp. 97-112.

"La importancia del Instituto Internacional para la Unificación del DerechoPrivado (UNIDROIT) en la futura uniformidad jurídica del hemisferio americano",RFCJPUCV, 1992, No. 86, pp. 33-73.

"La restitución de menores en el derecho convencional americano", in Hacia unNuevo Orden Internacional y Europeo. Estudios en Homenaje al Profesor ManuelDiez de Velasco , Madrid, 1993, pp. 1401-1418.

"Hague Conference on Private International Law. Convention of 29 May 1993 onProtection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.Text adopted by the seventeenth session and explanatory report byG. Parra-Aranguren", provisional edition, The Hague, 1994.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"La reciente evolución del derecho internacional privado en el hemisferioamericano (1960-1992)", La Escuela de Salamanca y el Derecho Internacional enAmérica. Del Pasado al Futuro , Salamanca, 1993, pp. 227-244; Liber Amicorum .Homenaje a la Obra Científica y Docente del Profesor José Muci Abraham , Caracas,1994, pp. 537-569.

"El ’Sistema de derecho romano actual’ de Federico Carlos de Savigny y susantecedentes doctrinarios en Alemania", RFDUCAB, 1994, No. 49, pp. 127-223.

"Aspectos de derecho internacional privado de los Principios para los ContratosMercantiles Internacionales elaborados por el UNIDROIT", RFCJPUCV, 1994, No. 91,pp. 169-180.

"An Overview of The Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention", in TheInternational Society of Family Law. 8th World Conference. Families Across theFrontiers, 28 June-2 July 1994 , Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britainand Northern Ireland.

"La Quinta Conferencia Especializada Interamericana sobre Derecho InternacionalPrivado (CIDIP-V, México, 1994)", Revista de la Fundación Procuraduría Generalde la República , Caracas, 1994, No. 11, pp. 177-247.

"Hague Conference on Private International Law. Convention of 29 May 1993 onProtection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.Text adopted by the seventeenth session and explanatory report byG. Parra-Aranguren", The Hague, 1994.

"Informe explicativo del Convenio del 29 de mayo de 1993 relativo ala protección de los niño s y a la cooperación en materia de adopcióninternacional" (translated by Alegría Borrás and Cristina González Beilfus).RFCJPUCV, 1995, No. 94, pp. 111-294.

"El Reglamento de Arbitraje de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas parael Derecho Mercantil Internacional (1976)", RFCJPUCV, 1994, No. 93, pp. 79-126.

"Conflict of Law Aspects of the UNIDROIT Principles of International CommercialContracts", Tulane Law Review (in publication).

"El Reglamento de Conciliación de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas parael Derecho Mercantil Internacional (CNUDMI, 1980)", RFCJPUCV, 1995, No. 95,pp. 123-135.

"La Convención de La Haya de 1993 sobre la Protección del Niño y la CooperaciónInternacional en materia de Adopción Internacional", in Boletin de la Facultadde Derecho de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia , Madrid, 1994,No. 6, pp. 155-169.

"La Ley Modelo de Arbitraje Comercial Internacional de la Comisión de laNaciones Unidas para el Derecho Mercantil Internacional (CNUDMI, 1985)" (inpublication).

"La Nulidad, el Reconocimiento y la Ejecución de los Laudos en la Ley Modelo deArbitraje Comercial Internacional de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas para elDerecho Mercantil Internacional (CNUDMI, 1985)" (in publication).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

RANJEVA, Raymond

(Madagascar)

[Original: French]

Born 31 August 1942 in Antananarivo.

Married, with five children.

Academic qualifications

Agrégé, Department of Law and Political Science, Faculty of Law and Economics,Paris (1972).

Doctorat d’Etat (Doctorate) in Law, Faculty of Law, Economics and SocialScience, University of Paris II (1971).

Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures de Doctorat (certificate of doctoral studies) inpublic law, University of Madagascar (1967).

Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures de Doctorat (certificate of doctoral studies) inpolitical science, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Paris (1966).

Diplôme, National School of Administration, Madagascar (1966).

Licence (Bachelor’s degree) in law (majors: public law and political science),University of Madagascar, Antananarivo (1965).

Baccalauréat (first university degree) in law, University of Madagascar,Antananarivo (1963).

Baccalauréat (secondary school certificate) in arts and philosophy, Antananarivo(1961).

Academic distinctions

Doctor Honoris Causa (honorary doctorate), universities of Limoges andStrasbourg.

Laureate, University of Madagascar; National Association of Doctors of Law;National School of Administration, Madagascar.

Professional training

Internship in litigation, French Council of State, Paris (1965-1966).

Attended lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law (1967).

Attended the seminar of the International Law Commission, Geneva (1968).

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Professional activities

University activities in Madagascar

Rector, University of Antananarivo (1988-1990).

Dean, Faculty of Law, Economics, Management and Social Sciences (1982-1986;reappointed 1988).

Chairman, Department of Law and Political Science (1973-1982).

Director, Centre for Studies in Public Law and Political Science (1972-1975).

Professor of International Relations and Constitutional Law, Madagascar MilitaryAcademy (1973-1974).

Professor, University of Madagascar (1972).

Professor, National School of Administration, Madagascar (1966-1971 (closure ofthe school)).

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Madagascar(1966-1972).

Civil Administrator (1966).

University activities abroad

Associate Professor, University of Aix-Marseille III (law, economics andscience) (1979, 1981).

Associate Professor, University of Bordeaux I (1983, 1988, 1992-1996).

Associate Professor, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) (1985).

Associate Professor, University of Paris II Institute of Advanced InternationalStudies, Paris (1990).

Visiting Professor, University of Réunion.

Visiting Professor, University of Burundi.

Guest lecturer, Free University of Brussels.

Director, Seminar on francophone research, Hague Academy of International Law(1987).

Member of the Board of Agrégation Examiners of the African and Malagasy Councilon Higher Education, Ouagadougou (1989).

Chairman of the Board of Agrégation Examiners of the African and MalagasyCouncil on Higher Education, Cotonou (1993).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Member, Scientific Council of the Association of Partially or Wholly French-Language Universities/Association of French-Language Universities (AUPELF/UREF).

Non-university activities

Member, Malagasy Academy (1974).

Vice-Chairman, Malagasy Academy; Chairman, Ethics and Political Science Section(1975-1991; Honorary Vice-Chairman since 1991).

Associate member, Institute of International Law (1995).

Managing Director of Jureco: legal, economic and financial data bank - researchand advisory body (1986-1990).

Editor, newsletter: Lettre Mensuelle de Jureco (1986-1988).

Member, Québec Society of International Law.

Associate member, Overseas Science Academy, Paris (1995).

Council member, African Society of International and Comparative Law.

Council member, French Society of International Law (1997-).

Non-professional activities

Member, National Constitutional Committee (1975).

Founding member, Malagasy Human Rights Committee (1971).

Legal adviser, Catholic Bishops Conference, Madagascar (1969-1990).

Secretary-General, Malagasy Legal Studies Society.

Project studies

The legal regime of the urban master plan for the city of Antananarivo: head ofUNDP/Madagascar project (1984).

Food legislation: head of project, Madagascar (1988).

Urban land ownership laws in Madagascar (World Bank project): head of project(1988).

Coordination of environment and development structures and institutions(FAO/Madagascar) (1988).

Landless peasants (FAO project): head of project (1988).

National Institute of Training and Advanced Training, vocational training study(ILO project) (1987).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

International activities

Bilateral diplomatic negotiations between France and Madagascar.

International codification conferences: Third United Nations Conference on theLaw of the Sea, Second Committee (settlement of disputes and final clauses); andPreparatory Commission for the International Seabed Authority and for theInternational Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

Meetings of international organizations: United Nations General Assembly,thirty-third and forty-fifth sessions (1979, 1990).

Organization of African Unity Conferences of Heads of State or Government andmeetings of its Council of Ministers.

Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana(1979).

Conference of Heads of State of French-speaking countries (1987).

Various university activities: Seminar on International Humanitarian Law,Yaoundé (1997); Legal issues in French-speaking countries, Kinshasa (1991);International Conference of French-speaking Faculties of Law and PoliticalScience, Vice-Chairman for Africa (1987-1991).

International legal activities

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID): mediationin the SIDETEX INTERNATIONAL GMBH case (Hamburg/Republic of Madagascar ).

Consultant for Madagascar on the amicable settlement of the transfer to theState of the activities of Eau-Electricité de Madagascar and Electricité deFrance (1973).

International Court of Justice: Counsel in the Mali/Burkina Faso border disputecase (1985).

Member, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court ofArbitration, the body responsible for approving draft arbitral decisions(1994-present).

Co-opted member and arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport (1995-present).

Activities in cooperation with international social organizations

UNICEF: Participated in the Symposium of African Artists and Intellectuals in:

- Bamako, with a statement on the strategy of grass-roots participationin social development (1989);

- Antananarivo, with a communication on the International Charter of theRights of the Child: an urgent political demand (1989).

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Principal publications

Studies and essays

La succession d’organisations internationales en Afrique . Paris, Pédone, 1978,pref. S. Bastid.

Règlement des différends. Traité du nouveau Droit de la Mer , ed. R. J. Dupuy etD. Vignes. Paris, Economica, 1985, p. 1105-1107.

Commentaires des articles 86-89-90-91. La Charte des Nations Unies , ed.J. P. Cot et A. Pellet. Paris, Economica, 1985.

Le règlement des différends de délimitation maritime - course taught at Rabat(Morocco) at the invitation of Laval University (Québec-Canada), 1990.

Droit international public . Paris, Economica, 1991.

Les organisations non gouvernementales et la mise en oeuvre du droitinternational . In Collected courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.The Hague/Boston/London, 1998.

Articles

"Aspects juridiques originaux de la commune malgache", Revue juridique etpolitique - indépendence et coopération , 1968.

"Efficacité et structure de l’entreprise publique à Madagascar", Annales del’Université de Madagascar , 1973.

"Le fondement du neutralisme et du non-engagement", Bulletin de l’Académiemalgache , 1974.

"Les positions de Madagascar à la IIIème Conférence des Nations Unies sur ledroit de la mer", Acte du colloque du 75ème anniversaire de l’Académie malgache ,Antananarivo, 1977.

"Les positions des états africains à la IIIème Conférence des Nations Unies surle droit de la mer", Annuaire des pays de l’océan Indien , 1979.

"Problème juridique de l’océan Indien", Revue générale du droit internationalpublic , 1981.

"Le fondement de l’obligation juridique dans le droit traditionnel malgache etle droit moderne", Mémoires de l’Académie malgache , 1981.

"L’Afrique et le droit", Acte du colloque de l’Institut diplomatique duMinistère des Affaires étrangères à l’occasion du XXVème anniversaire del’Organisation de l’Unité Africaine , Cairo, 1988.

"La culture malgache et l’échéance 2000", Bulletin de l’Académie malgache , 1988.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"L’espace scientifique francophone: enjeu et limites", Prospectivesfrancophones , Dakar, 1989.

"Une Cour suprême pour quoi faire?", Colloque sur les Cours suprêmes en afrique ,Paris, Economica, 1989.

"La jurisprudence des élections à Madagascar", Symposium organized by theUniversity of Geneva. Antananarivo, Académie malgache, 1988.

"La pensée constitutionnelle du Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru", Bulletin de l’Académiemalgache , 1989.

"Prophétie et politique", Mélanges Doyen Fety Michel , Antananarivo, Ed. Antso,1990.

"Morale dans les relations de pouvoir", Symposium of former students ofinstitutes of political studies, Antananarivo, 1990.

"Démocratie et avenir", Symposium international sur la Démocratie: Bicentenairede l’Assemblée Nationale du Québec , 1992.

"Transition démocratique et relations internationales, CERIGOI , University of LaRéunion, 1992.

"La Cour Internationale de Justice: Voyage à l’intérieur", Publications CERIC ,Aix-en-Provence, 1993.

"L’expérience malgache de privatisation", Forum international de Nice , 1993.

"Les enjeux politiques de l’enseignement des sciences sociales à Madagascar",Publications de l’ILAS , University of Leyden, 1994.

"Libertés et franchises universitaires dans un pays du Sud", Mélanges Mayor ,Brussels, Bruylant, 1994.

"Réflexions sur les propositions en vue de la constitution d’un mécanismepanafricain de prévention et de règlement des conflits", Mélanges Schermers ,Brussels, Bruylant, 1994.

"L’environnement, la Cour Internationale de Justice et la Chambre spéciale pourles questions d’environnement", Annuaire français de Droit international , 1995.

"Souveraineté et Cour Internationale de Justice", Harvard International Review ,1995.

"Etat de droit et développement", Acte du XXIVème Congrès I.D.E.F . (Cairo).Brussels, Bruylant, 1995.

"La justice internationale", Annonces de la Seine , Tribunal de Commerce deNanterre, 1995.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"L’Organisation des Nations Unies et les garanties des droits de l’homme",Faculté de Droit de Bordeaux, 1995 (forthcoming).

"Droit positif, question juridique et procédure consultative", Mélanges HubertThierry , Paris, Pédone, 1996.

"Droit: prévision et règlement des conflits internationaux", Etats africains auseuil du troisième millénaire (symposium at Dakar), 1997 (forthcoming).

"L’Afrique à la Cour Internationale de Justice", Mélanges Cadoux , February 1998(forthcoming).

"Démocratisation des institutions politiques et Organisation des Nations Unies",Mélanges Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Brussels, Bruylant, May 1998.

"La prescription par la Cour Internationale de Justice de mesures conservatoiresà caractère militaire", Mélanges Bedjaoui , May 1998 (forthcoming).

"Quelques observations sur l’intérêt à avoir une juridiction internationaleunique", Forum du droit international , May 1998.

"La problématique de l’universalité des droits de l’homme", October 1998(forthcoming).

"L’Universalité des droits de l’homme et le continent africain", Internationalsymposium in Messino on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights, October 1998.

Lectures

"La monarchie malgache et le droit international", UNITAR Seminar on Africa andInternational Law, Accra, 1971.

"Les aspects juridiques du nouvel ordre économique international", UNITARSeminar, Kinshasa, 1976.

"Madagascar et le concert international", French Institute of InternationalRelations, Paris, 1984.

"Droit humanitaire et droit international", International Committee of the RedCross, Symposium organized by the Malagasy Academy, the University of Madagascarand the ICRC Office at Nairobi, Antananarivo, 1988.

"Les enjeux du droit international contemporain et les Etats africains", Facultyof Law, University of Kyoto, Japan, 1989.

"Indépendance du pouvoir judiciaire", delivered at the close of theinternational symposium on the judiciary, Madagascar, May 1993.

"Le catharanthus roseus (la pervenche) en droit international", School ofOriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

"Délinquance économique et financière", International symposium on the courtsand tribunals of the Indian Ocean, Antananarivo, October 1996.

"La Cour Internationale de Justice et la paix", Faculty of Law and Economics,University of Limoges, December 1996.

"Les potentialités du mode juridictionnel du réglement des différends",University of Aix-Marseille, January 1997.

"La Cour Internationale de Justice et les droits de l’homme", Faculty of Law,University of Bordeaux, 1998.

Specialized teaching : doctoral lectures (mimeographs)

International law

"Souveraineté et droit international", Antananarivo, 1973-1974.

"La nouveau droit international et les enjeux des rapports internationaux",Antananarivo, 1974-1975.

"Le droit des organisations internationales: nouveaux aspects de ladémocratisation des relations internationales", Antananarivo, 1975-1976.

"Les nouvelles perspectives du droit de la mer", Aix-en-Provence, 1979.

"Nouvel ordre économique international et droit international public",Antananarivo, 1980.

"Les relations juridiques monétaires internationales", Antananarivo, 1981-1982.

"Les exceptions de compétence nationale", Antananarivo, 1984.

"Le progrès technique et le droit international: Télécommunications et droit dela mer", Antananarivo, 1986.

"Les nouvelles techniques de négociation des conventions internationales",University of Paris II, 1990.

"Le contentieux international", Aix-en-Provence, 1992.

"Le Procès international devant la Cours Internationale de Justice", Bordeaux,1993.

"Dimension économique de la réalisation de l’Etat de Droit", Agence decoopération culturelle et technique, 1994.

"Les droits justiciables", Bordeaux, 1994.

"La jurisprudence de la Cour Internationale de Justice: Interprétation etcréation du droit", Strasbourg, 1999.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

Constitutional law

"Les constitutions modernes et le continent africain", University of Paris I,1984.

"Droit et Droit constitutionnel dans les Etats africains", Bordeaux, 1983.

"La décision", Antananarivo, 1985.

"Centralisme politique et décentralisation administrative", La Réunion, 1987.

"Politique et régimes démocratiques", Human rights: Audio-visual distancelearning programme, Agence francophone pour l’enseignment supérieur et larecherche, 1995.

Finance and economic law

"Droit international et droit national en matière d’investissement",Antananarivo, 1987.

"Analyse financière et juridique des décisions politiques", Antananarivo,1977-1978.

"La coordination administrative: aspects financiers", Antananarivo, 1985.

/...

A/54/307S/1999/941English

WEERAMANTRY, Christopher Gregory

(Sri Lanka)

-----

/...

UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Security Council

Documents

Transcript of UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Security Council