UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

CAT/SP/18/Add.1

18 October 1995

ENGLISH

Original: ENGLISH/SPANISH

MEETING OF THE STATES PARTIES

Fifth Meeting

Geneva

29 November 1995

ELECTION OF FIVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE

TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS ARE DUE TO EXPIRE ON

31 DECEMBER 1995, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 17 OF THE

CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR

DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

1.	Since the preparation of document CAT/SP/18, the Secretary-General has received the following additional nomination for election to the Committee against Torture.

Mr. Fawzi EL IBRASHI (Egypt)

2.	Biographical data on Mr. El Ibrashi as provided by the State party concerned are reproduced in the annex to the present document. The annex also contains biographical data on Mr. Olimpo Sáez Marcucci, nominated by the Government of Panama, whose name appears in document CAT/SP/18.

GE.95-14347 (E)

Annex

Mr. Fawzi El Ibrashi (Egypt)

Date of birth:	5 November 1932

Marital status:	Married with son and daughter

Academic qualifications

B.L. Law (with merit), Cairo University, May 1953.

Masters in Political Sciences, Cairo University, January 1957.

Diploma of Public Law, Cairo University, September 1960.

Diploma of Russian Language (with merit), Moscow University, 1968.

Diploma of Taxation (with merit), Cairo University, May 1972.

Diploma of International Law (with merit), Ein Shams University, October 1972.

Diploma of Private Law (with merit), Cairo University, May 1973.

Diploma of Islamic (Sharia) Law (with merit), Cairo University, October 1975.

Completed Studies in Political Science - Pol. Sciences Institute, Geneva, May 1979.

B.A. Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, September 1983.

Masters in Political Sciences, Boston University, May 1987.

Languages

Fluent English and French; good command of Russian.

Positions occupied

1954	District Attorney

1963	Judge in Egyptian courts

1963	First Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)

1963-1966	First Secretary, Judicial Department (MFA)

1971-1973	Counsellor, Legal and Treaties Department (MFA)

1973-1976	Counsellor, Foreign Minister's Cabinet

1976	Head of Legal Treaties Department (MFA)

1976-1980	Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy to Head of Permanent Representative, Geneva

1980-1984	Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambassador, Foreign Minister's Cabinet

1984-1988	Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Community

1988-1990	Director of Diplomatic Institute (MFA)

1990-1992	Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs

1993-1995	Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Qatar

Missions and special tasks

Member of the Egyptian delegation in many conferences and negotiations. Represented Egypt in the diplomatic conference for the revision of the Paris Convention.

Conference on the Law of the Sea (several sessions).

Spokesman of the Group of 77 in the conference on transfer of technology, Geneva (several sessions).

Twice Chairman of the Legal Sub-Committee for Outer Space, Geneva.

Spokesman of the Group of 77 and Chairman of the Preparatory Conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva and Vice-President of the Conference.

Member of the International Center of Arbitration, Cairo, since 1989.

Represented Egypt in the Sixth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly.

Member of the Egyptian delegation to the Euro-Arab Dialogue.

Represented Egypt in the Legal Committee of the Arab League (several sessions).

Organized and participated in many sessions and conferences (Latin-African Dialogue, Euro-African Dialogue, Korean-Egyptian Dialogue, Seoul, 1989).

External Lecturer at Cairo University, the American University in Cairo and the Institute of Arab Studies, Cairo.

Took part in the most of the peace negotiations with Israel.

Head of the Egyptian delegation in the Multilateral Peace Negotiations.

Water Resources Committee (several sessions).

Deputy Chairman of the Committee against Torture.

Decorations

Order of Republic, Second Degree, Egypt, 1976.

Order of Merit, First Degree, Egypt, 1982

Order of Merit, Belgium, 1988.

Olimpo Aníbal Sáez Marcucci (Panama)

Date of birth:	12 September 1947

Chitré, Province of Herrera, Panama

Marital status:	Single

Education

1971	University of Panama, Faculty of Law and Political Science

1966-1970	Nicólas Victoria Jaén Institute

Bachiller en Letras

1961-1965	Don Bosco Technical Institute

Press Typographer's Diploma

Positions occupied

1966-1968	Press typographer

1968-1973	Sales executive

1974-1976	Secondary school teacher, history and civics

1974-1979	Director of children's courses

National Federation of Catholic Women

1979-1981	Sales executive, self-employed

1981-1989	President of the People's Nationalist Party

Political activities

1972	Founder of the Camilo Torres Association,

Faculty of Law and Political Science,

University of Panama

1979	Founder of the Nationalist Action Association,

Faculty of Law and Political Science,

University of Panama

1978-1980	President of the Law Students' Centre, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Panama

1980	Independent candidate for election to the Legislative	Assembly by the Province of Panama in the by-elections	of 1980

1981	Founder and President of the People's Nationalist Party

1984	Candidate for the office of Vice-President of the Republic for the People's Nationalist Party

1989	Candidate and legislator elect in the elections of 1989

1990-1994	Legislator in the National Legislative Assembly

1993-1994	Member of the Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly

1991-1994	President of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Legislative Assembly

1992-1994	Alternate Vice-President of PARLATINO

Member of the Presidential Commission on Matters Relating to the Panama Canal

At present

1995	Government Procurator's Office

Assistant in the International Affairs Division

A list of other activities may be consulted in the files of the Centre for Human Rights.

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