Address at the Japanese Reception, 28 October 2016, [Ambassador Bessho, Permanent representative of Japan to the United Nations, kindly gave a reception for me on 28 October 2016 for the promotion of my re-election to the International Law Commission. I did not want my address to sound like a election campaign speech. So, I chose…… Continue reading Friendship

In Memory of Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (4 May 2016) I first met Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1981 when I was a staff member of the UN Codification Division servicing the International Law Commission here in Geneva. I saw him coming to the Commission meetings with his two bodyguards. He had been known as an architect…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Mr. Boutros Boutros-Gali)

Tribute to the Memory of Ambassador Chusei Yamada (8 May 2013) [Ambassador Yamada was a Member of the ILC (1992 – 2009), its Chairman (2000), and Special Rapporteur on the topic of Shared Natural Resources (2001 – 2008).] I would like to begin with an episode from Ambassador Yamada’s boyhood. When the atomic bomb was…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Mr. Chusei Yamada)

In memory of Professor Choung Il Chee (2012) I learned from Dr. Park yesterday of the sad departure of Professor Choung Il Chee, and I would like to offer my sympathy as a fellow Asian member of the Commission. I met him only a few times when he visited our international law society meetings in…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Prof. Choung Il Chee)