HC Deb 18 October 1989 vol 158 c147W
Mr. Sillars

To 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. Sainsbury

The 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.

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