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El Halam of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Iurii Pricop of Moldova; JusticeAbdellatif Cherqaoui, President de Chambre pres de la Cour d’ Apel de Casablanca,Justice Khadija Ouazzani Touhami, President de Chambre pres de la Cour Supreme,and Conseiller Boutaina Benmoussa of Morocco; Justice Collins Parker, High Courtof Namibia; Justice Ram Kumar Prasad Shah, Judge of the Supreme Court ofNepal; Dennis de Jong, Adviser on Human Rights and Peacebuilding, Ministry ofForeign Affairs, The Netherlands; Justice Timothy Adepoju Oyeyipo,Administrator of the National Judicial Institute, Philomena Chinwe Uwandu,Assistant Chief State Counsel, Federal Ministry of Justice, and Hadiza IbrahimSaeed, Studies Fellow at the National Judicial Institute, Nigeria; Syed Haider Shah,Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan; Xiomara Bulgin De Wilson ofPanama; Cristi Danilet, Counsellor, Ministry of Justice, Romania; Judge Hyong-Won Bae of the Republic of Korea; Jovan Cosic, Ministry of Justice, Serbia;Justice Ignacio Sancho Garagallo, President of the Commercial Division of theCourt of Appeal of Barcelona, Spain; Suhada Gamlath, Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms, Sri Lanka; Bashar Safiey, Permanent Missionof the Syrian Arab Republic; Henry Haduli of Uganda; and Kevin Driscoll, SeniorCounsel, Department of Justice, United States of America.Other participants were Olga Ruda and Simon Conte from the AmericanBar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative; Lord Jonathan Mance from theConsultative Council of European Judges, Council of Europe; Dr. Dedo Geinitz,Johanna Beate Wysluch and Georg Huber-Brabenwarter from the German Agencyfor Technical Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit);Prof. Giuseppe Di Federico and Dr. Francesco Contini from the Research Instituteon Judicial Systems, Bologna, Italy; Giovanni Pasqua and Justice Khaled Ahmedfrom the International Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences, Siracusa,Italy; Arkan El Seblani from the United Nations Development Programme; KitVolz, Dr. Stuart Gilman, Dr. Oliver Stolpe, Phil Matsheza, Alexandra SouzaMartins, and Ugonnaya Grace Ezekwem from UNODC; Ferdinand L.K. Wambali,Private Secretary to the Chief Justice of the United Republic of Tanzania; andNeshan Gunasekera, Attorney-at-Law, Sri Lanka.The Draft was considered in detail, each of the paragraphs being examinedseparately. Amendments, including certain deletions, were agreed upon. TheCommentary that follows is intended to contribute to a better understanding of theBangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct.XII. Resource MaterialIn the preparation of this Commentary, reference has been made to, andinspiration drawn from, numerous sources. These include international instruments,national codes of judicial conduct and commentaries thereon, judgments anddecisions of international, regional and national courts, opinions of judicial ethicsadvisory committees, and learned treatises.20