United Nations Security Council Resolution 1340

UN Security Council
Resolution 1340
Date: 8 February 2001
Meeting no.: 4,274
Code: S/RES/1340 (Document)

Vote: For: 15 Abs.: 0 Against: 0
Subject: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Result: Adopted

Security Council composition in 2001:
permanent members:

 CHN  FRA  RUS  UK  USA

non-permanent members:
 BAN  COL  IRL  JAM  MLI
 MRI  NOR  SIN  TUN  UKR

Front of the ICTY.
Photograph provided courtesy of the ICTY.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1340, adopted unanimously on February 8, 2001, after recalling resolutions 808 (1993), 827 (1993), 1166 (1998) and 1329 (2000), the Council forwarded a list of nominees for permanent judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to the General Assembly for consideration.[1]

The list of nominees proposed by the Secretary-General Kofi Annan was as follows:

  • Carmel A. Agius (Malta)
  • Richard Banda (Malawi)
  • Mohamed Amin El Abbassi Elmahdi (Egypt)
  • David Hunt (Australia)
  • Claude Jorda (France)
  • O-Gon Kwon (South Korea)
  • Liu Daqun (China)
  • Abderraouf Mahbouli (Tunisia)
  • Richard May (United Kingdom)
  • Theodor Meron (United States)
  • Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (Zambia)
  • Rafael Nieto Navia (Colombia)
  • Leopold Ntahompagaze (Burundi)
  • Alphonsus Martinus Maria Orie (Netherlands)
  • Fausto Pocar (Italy)
  • Jonah Rahetlah (Madagascar)
  • Patrick Lipton Robinson (Jamaica)
  • Almiro Simões Rodrigues (Portugal)
  • Miriam Defensor Santiago (Philippines)
  • Wolfgang Schomburg (Germany)
  • Mohamed Shahabuddeen (Guyana)
  • Demetrakis Stylianides (Cyprus)
  • Krister Thelin (Sweden)
  • Volodymyr Vassylenko (Ukraine)
  • Karam Chand Vohrah (Malaysia)

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