Vietnam vies for a seat at 2023-2027 International Law Commission
VOV.VN - Vietnam has nominated Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao, an incumbent member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC), to stand again as a candidate to this UN body for the 2023-2027 term.
Ambassador Thao is one of 11 candidates who will run for eight seats representing the Asia-Pacific region at ILC in the new term.
The remaining 10 Asian candidates are from Japan, China, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Cyprus, India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Mongolia and Lebanon.
Elsewhere 37 candidates will vie for 26 other seats representing Africa, East Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and West Europe.
The 76th UN General Assembly is scheduled to elect 34 ILC members for the 2023-2027 term at UN headquarters in New York on November 12, 2021.
Ambassador Thao, an international legal expert, became a member of the ILC in November 2016.
He graduated Sorbonne University (France) majoring in international law. He held important positions such as deputy head of the National Border Committee, head of the negotiation teams on border agreements with neighbouring countries and a legal advisor to the drafting process of Vietnam’s 2012 Law of the Sea.
ILC, the UN’s subsidiary organ established in 1947, is in charge of compiling international treaties, drafting international conventions and studying major issues related to international law. It has 34 members, elected once every five years.