New members of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration appointed by Austria, Belarus and Portugal

Austria, Belarus and Portugal have renewed the mandates or, alternatively, appointed new members to the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Court for new terms of six years after the previous mandates of their members expired. The appointments of the conciliators, the arbitrators and their alternates were made in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 of the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE, which was signed in 1992 in Stockholm.

Currently, 34 States are party to the Convention, which provides mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of disputes.

The following is the list of the conciliators, arbitrators and their alternates appointed by Austria, Belarus and Portugal.

Austria

Conciliators:

Peter LAUNSKY-TIEFFENTHAL

Ambassador, Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs,

Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

Gerhard HAFNER

Professor Emeritus of International Law, University of Vienna

Arbitrator:

Hans WINKLER

Former Ambassador, former Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna

Alternate:

Ursula KRIEBAUM

Professor, University of Vienna

Belarus

Conciliators:

Vladimir SENKO

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Former Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Relations and

National Security of the Council of the Republic of Belarus

Sergei MARTYNOV

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

Arbitrator:

Petr MIKLASHEVICH

Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus

Alternate:

Andrei ZABARA

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus

Portugal

Conciliators:

Gonçalo Nuno DA CRUZ SARAIVA MATIAS

Professor, Faculty of Law, Portuguese Catholic University

Gilberto Jorge DE SOUSA JERÓNIMO

Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe

Arbitrator:

Manuel Jorge MAYER DE ALMEIDA RIBEIRO

Professor, Social and Political Sciences Faculty, University of Lisbon

Alternate:

Mateus PEREIRA KOWALSKI

Professor, Autonomous University of Lisbon /

Director of the International Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal