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From 1993 to 2004, the UN Office of Legal Affairs was involved in and in some cases directly responsible for the establishment of the following institutions:

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                    

The International Tribunal for the

 Former Yugoslavia (1993)

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                    

The International Tribunal for Rwanda (1994) 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                      

The International Seabed Authority (1994) 

 

                                                                                                                                       

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (1996)

                                                                                                                                  

The Commission on the Limits of the

 Continental Shelf (1997) 

 

 

                                                                                                                                  

International Criminal Court (1998)                                               Ceremony Marking the Opening for Signature

                                                                                                   of the Rome Statute of the Internaional

                                                                                                   Criminal Court on 18 July 1998

 

 

 

                                                                                                                               

                                                                           Signing the Agreement on the Special Court for

                                                                                              Sierra Leone with Minister of Justice Solomon

                                                                                               Berewa on 16 January 2002 

                             

 

                                                                                                                                

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (2002)                    With President Kabbah at the Courthouse Opening

                                                                                                                             Ceremony on 10 March 2004

 

 

                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                         In the Killing Fields Cambodia March 2000   

                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                         

Extraordinary Chambers of the

National Courts of Cambodia (2003)                                 Signing with His Excellency Sok An the

                                                                                                                   Agreement between the Royal Government 

                                                                                                                  of Cambodia and the United Nations at the

                                                                                                                  Chaktomuk Theatre, Phnom Penh on 6 June 2003

                                                                                                                                                Photo: OCM

                                                                                                                                                               

 

                                                               Iraq 1998 

 

  

                           

                                                        Photo John Isaac                                                                               Photo John Isaac

                          Baghdad February 1998                                        Baghdad February 1998