The Thirty-Third Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (SPLOS) have elected seven Members of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), following voting held 14 June 2023 (UNCLOS, Annex VI, Article 4; see nominations).
The States Parties re-elected Vice-President Tomas Heidar (Iceland) and elected Ms Frida María Armas Pfirter (Argentina), Mr Hidehisa Horinouchi (Japan), Mr Thembile Elphus Joyini (South Africa), Mr Osman Keh Kamara (Sierra Leone), Mr Konrad Jan Marciniak (Poland) and Mr Zha Hyoung Rhee (Republic of Korea)(see curricula vitae of candidates nominated by States Parties). The nine year term of each Member will commence 1 October 2023 (Rules of the Tribunal, Article 2).
The term of office for six Members of the Tribunal shall expire 30 September 2023, namely President Albertus Jacobus Hoffmann, Judge Stanislaw Michal Pawlak, Judge Shunji Yanai, Judge James Luta Kateka, Judge Jin-Hyun Paik and Judge Alonso Gómez-Robledo Verduzco. For more information see the ITLOS Press Release.
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