§ Mr. SillarsTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs who are the present members and what is their nationality, of the International Court of Justice; what salaries they are paid; what is the total cost of servicing the court; and if he will estimate the United Kingdom share of contribution to that expenditure.
§ Mr. SainsburyThe present members of the International Court of Justice are:
- José Maria Ruda (Argentina)
- Kéba Mbaye (Senegal)
- Manfred Lachs (Poland)
- Taslim Olawale Elias (Nigeria)
- Shigeru Oda (Japan)
- Roberto Ago (Italy)
- Stephen M. Schwebel (USA)
- Sir Robert Jennings (United Kingdom)
- Mohammed Bedjaoui (Algeria)
- Ni Zhengyu (China)
- Jens Evensen (Norway)
- Nikolai K. Tarassov (USSR)
- Gilbert Guillaume (France)
- Mohammed Shahabuddeen (Guyana)
- Raghunandan Swarup Pathak (India)
The annual salary of each judge is US $82,000. The budget of the ICJ for the biennium 1988–89 is US $13,250,800.
The United Kingdom pays $643,989 of this.