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2001 Election of the International Law Commission
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The term of office of the thirty-four members of the International Law Commission for the 1997-2001 quinquennium expired at the end of 2001, and the election of the members of the Commission for a five-year term beginning on 1 January 2002 took place at the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, on 7 November 2001. The Statute of the International Law Commission, provides, in article 2, that the International Law Commission shall consist of thirty-four members who shall be persons of recognized competence in international law, with no two members being nationals of the same State and that in case of dual nationality a candidate shall be deemed to be a national of the State in which he ordinarily exercises civil and political rights. The
members of the Commission were elected by the General Assembly from
the following list of candidates nominated by the Governments of
States Members of the United Nations:
Each
State Member of the United Nations could nominate not more than
four candidates, of whom two could be nationals of the nominating
State and two nationals of other States (articles 3, 4 and 7).
Members of the Commission are elected for five years and are eligible
for re-election (article 10).
The
thirty-four members of the International Law Commission were elected
according to the pattern set up in paragraph 3 of resolution 36/39
of 18 November 1981 (E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A)
. Thus, the allocation of seats on the Commission for the five-year
term beginning on 1 January 2002 was as follows:
As
to the nomination of candidates, the Statute provides in article
5 that the names of the candidates shall be submitted in writing
by Governments to the Secretary-General by the first of June of
the year in which an election is held.
Documentation relating to the 2001 election:
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Codification Division, Office of Legal Affairs