Meetings

12th Meeting of States parties & 2009 elections - Committee against Torture

Date

13 October 2009

LOCATION

Geneva

A meeting of States parties took place in Geneva on 13 October 2009 to elect members of the Committee against Torture to replace the five members with terms expiring on 31 December 2009.

Results

Name	State	Term expires
Ms. Essadia BELMIR	Morocco	2013
Mr. Alessio BRUNI	Italy	2013
Mr. Fernando MARIÑO MENENDEZ	Spain	2013
Ms. Nora SVEAASS	Norway	2013
Mr. Xuexian WANG	China	2013

Note that Ms. Belmir, Mr. Mariño Menendez, Ms. Sveaass and Mr. Wang were already members of the Committee against Torture.

Documentation

The CVs of the candidates nominated by 27 July 2009 are available in document (CAT/SP/32)
12th meeting of State Party (CAT/C/SR.15)
Provisional Agenda (CAT/SP/33)
Rules of Procedure (CAT/C/3/Rev. 4)
Rules of Procedure of the Meeting of States Parties (CAT/SP/2/Rev.1)
Resolution of the General Assembly (A/RES/63/166)
Resolution of the General Assembly (A/RES/63/167)
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/64/212)

List of candidates

Name	State
Ms. Saadia BELMIR	Morocco
Mr. Alessio BRUNI	Italy
Ms. Fatiha HADJ SALAH	Algeria
Mr. El Hadi Salem HAMMED	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Mr. Alexander KOVALEV	Russian Federation
Mr. Fernando MARIÑO MENENDEZ	Spain
Mr. Lucien RAKOTONIAINA	Madagascar
Ms. Nora SVEAASS	Norway
Mr. Xuexian WANG	China
Ms. Hamida BARMAKI	Afghanistan (withdrawn)
Mr. Willie Aubbie MUBANGA	Zambia (withdrawn)

The candidatures nominated by Afghanistan and Zambia were withdrawn on 7 and 4 September respectively.

The then membership of the Committee against Torture was:

Name	State	Term expires 31 December
Ms. Saadia BELMIR (Vice-Chairperson)	Morocco	2009
Ms. Felice GAER	United States of America	2011
Mr. Luis GALLEGOS CHIRIBOGA	Ecuador	2011
Mr. Abdoulaye GAYE	Senegal	2011
Mr. Claudio GROSSMAN (Chairperson)	Chile	2011
Ms. Myrna Y. KLEOPAS (Rapporteur)	Cyprus	2011
Mr. Alexander KOVALEV	Russian Federation	2009
Mr. Fernando MARIÑO MENENDEZ	Spain	2009
Ms. Nora SVEAASS (Vice-Chairperson)	Norway	2009
Mr. Xuexian WANG (Vice-Chairperson)	China	2009