United Nations Security Council Resolution 1191

UN Security Council
Resolution 1191
UN Security Council; Resolution 1191
	Courtroom at the ICTY (photograph provided courtesy of the ICTY)
Date	27 August 1998
Meeting no.	3,919
Code	S/RES/1191 (Document)
Subject	The International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Voting summary	15 voted for; None voted against; None abstained;
Result	Adopted
Security Council composition
Permanent members	China; France; Russia; United Kingdom; United States;
Non-permanent members	Bahrain; Brazil; Costa Rica; Gabon; Gambia; Japan; Kenya; Portugal; Slovenia; Sweden;

United Nations Security Council resolution 1191 was adopted unanimously on 27 August 1998. In it, after recalling resolutions 808 (1993), 827 (1993) and 1166 (1998), the Council forwarded a list of nine nominations for judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to the General Assembly for consideration.^[1]

The list of nominations received by Secretary-General Kofi Annan by 4 August 1998 was as follows:

Mohamed Bennouna (Morocco)
David Hunt (Australia)
Per-Johan Lindholm [fi] (Finland)
Hugo Anibal Llanos Mansilla (Chile)
Patrick Robinson (Jamaica)
S.W.B. Vadugodapitiya (Sri Lanka)
Luis Valencia Rodríguez (Ecuador)
Jan Skupinski (Poland)
Peter Wilkitzki (Germany)

The General Assembly later elected Mohamed Bennouna, David Hunt and Patrick Robinson to serve in the third chamber at the ICTY in October 1998.^[2]

^ "Security Council forwards to General Assembly names of nine candidates for judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia". United Nations. 27 August 1998.
^ "Assembly elects three judges to serve in new trial chamber of International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia". United Nations. 16 October 1998.

[un-1] "Security Council forwards to General Assembly names of nine candidates for judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia". United Nations. 27 August 1998.

[2] "Assembly elects three judges to serve in new trial chamber of International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia". United Nations. 16 October 1998.

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