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