Election of the 15 members of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC)

  ·  19 November 2021
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Switzerland, Depositary State of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, has chaired the elections of the members of the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC). The elections took place in Bern on 19 November 2021. 

The 76 States Parties to the First Additional Protocol of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions that have accepted the competence of the Commission were invited to participate in these elections. 58 States participated in the meeting under the chairmanship of Ambassador Nathalie Marti, Vice-Director of the Directorate of Public International Law of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).

After the first ballot the following candidates were elected for a term of office of five years (in the alphabetical order of their state of origin):

Algeria                            Mr RACHID BELHADJ
Argentina                       Mr HOLGER FEDERICO MARTINSEN
Belgium                          Mr VAIOS KOUTROULIS
Chile                               Mr ALFREDO LABBÉ
Costa Rica                     Ms DYANNE MARENCO GONZALEZ
Germany                        Mr THILO MARAUHN
Madagascar                   Ms TATIANA EDDIE RAZAFINDRAVAO
Mongolia                        Mr SUKHBOLD SUKHEE 
Poland                            Ms ELŻBIETA MIKOS-SKUZA
Portugal                          Mr MATEUS KOWALSKI 
Qatar                               Ms NOOR IBRAHIM AL-SADA 
Slovakia                          Ms KATARÍNA ŠMIGOVÁ
Sweden                           Ms ÅSA MOLDE
United Arab Emirates      Mr MOHAMED AL KAMALI
United Kingdom               Mr ROBIN MCNEILL LOVE

The newly-formed Commission will enter into function at its first annual meeting planned to take place in March 2022 in Geneva. Each of its members serves in a personal capacity and on the basis of the principle of impartiality.
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