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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
posts are all occupied by WEOG professionals
(two males from Belgium and Germany, and one
female from France). 216
Within the Court, there is one Under Secretary
General (USG – Prosecutor) 217 who is a male
from Argentina and two Assistant Secretary
Generals (ASG – the Registrar and the Deputy
Prosecutor) 218 both of whom are females from
Italy and The Gambia, respectively.
In the Judiciary, Asia, Africa and WEOG are
represented in the Presidency, respectively by
the President (Judge Sang-Hyun Song from the
Republic of Korea) and two Vice-Presidents of the
Court (Judge Fatoumata Dembele Diarra from
Mali and Judge Hans-Peter Kaul from Germany).
There are three P5 positions in the Judiciary:
the Chef de Cabinet, the Head of the New York
Liaison Office and the Senior Legal Adviser to
the Chambers. Of these, one (Chef de Cabinet),
is reported by the ICC as being vacant although
there is a male appointee from WEOG (United
Kingdom) in the post at a P5 level. The two
other officially filled positions are occupied
by an African woman (Kenya, Head, New York
Liaison Office) and a male appointee from WEOG
(France, Senior Legal Adviser).
None of the Heads of the OTP, Registry, ASP
Secretariat, and Secretariat of the TFV are from
Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe. The incoming ASP
President is a woman from Eastern Europe. 219
Following the recommendation expressed
by the Committee on Budget and Finance at
its twelfth session in April 2009, the Human
Resources Section of the Court prepared a twoyear
plan to conduct recruitment missions
in under-represented and non-represented
regions. The first such mission was conducted
in December 2009 in Estonia. 220 While more
missions in Eastern European countries were
planned for the first half of 2010, no activities
were carried out in 2010 nor 2011 due to
budgetary and human resource constraints. In
the Court’s <strong>Report</strong> to the ASP on human resource
management, the Registrar has indicated that
the Section will work on an alternative strategy,
in light of the zero growth in the budget, to
stimulate an increase in awareness about the
Court's employment possibilities in underrepresented
and not represented countries. 221
All the members elected to the Disciplinary
Board for Counsel (two permanent and one
alternate) and to the Disciplinary Appeals Board
for Counsel (two permanent and one alternate)
are from WEOG countries, respectively from
France, Canada and Germany, and from France,
the United Kingdom and Spain.
216 The positions are Director of Common Administrative
Service Division, Director, Division of Court Services,
and Director, Internal Audit. Figures as of 31 July 2011.
Information provided by the Human Resources Section of
the ICC.
217 Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo (Argentina).
218 Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (The Gambia) and
Registrar Silvana Arbia (Italy).
219 On 26 July 2011, the Bureau of the Assembly of States
Parties recommended that Ambassador Tiina Intelmann
(Estonia) be elected as new President of the ASP at the
beginning of the tenth ASP session in New York from 12 to
21 December 2011. This is the first time that a woman is
elected to this position.
220 <strong>Report</strong> of the Court on human resources management, ICC-
ASP/9/8, 30 July 2010, p 5.
221 <strong>Report</strong> of the Court on human resources management, ICC-
ASP/10/9, 22 June 2011, p 4.
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