CHAIRPERSONS AND VICE-CHAIRPERSONS OF SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS COMMITTEES ELECTED FOR 2000

Press Release
SC/6786

CHAIRPERSONS AND VICE-CHAIRPERSONS OF SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS COMMITTEES ELECTED FOR 2000

NEW YORK, 17 January (Department of Political Affairs) -- With reference to paragraph 4 (b) of the Note by the President of the Security Council dated 30 October 1998 (S/1998/1016), and following consultations among the members of the Security Council under the no-objection procedure, the members of the Security Council agreed to elect the following Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons of the respective Sanctions Committees for a period running until 31 December 2000:

Security Council Committee established by resolution 661 (1990) concerning the situation between Iraq and Kuwait:

Chairman: Peter van Walsum (Netherlands) Vice Chairmen: Argentina and Ukraine

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 748 (1992) concerning the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya:

Chairman: Volodymyr Yu. Yel’chenko (Ukraine) Vice Chairmen: Jamaica and Bangladesh

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia:

Chairman: Said Ben Mustapha (Tunisia) Vice Chairmen: Jamaica and the Netherlands

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 864 (1993) concerning the situation in Angola:

Chairman: Robert R. Fowler (Canada) Vice Chairmen: Argentina and Malaysia

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 918 (1994) concerning Rwanda:

Chairman: Hasmy Agam (Malaysia) Vice Chairmen: Canada and Tunisia

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Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 985 (1995) concerning Liberia:

Chairman: Martin Andjaba (Namibia) Vice Chairmen: Canada and Malaysia

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1132 (1997) concerning Sierra Leone:

Chairman: Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (Bangladesh) Vice Chairmen: Mali and Namibia

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1160 (1998)

Chairperson: M. Patricia Durrant, (Jamaica) Vice Chairmen: Tunisia and the Netherlands

Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Afghanistan:

Chairman: Arnoldo Manuel Listre (Argentina) Vice Chairmen: Mali and Ukraine

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