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Memberships of The Netherlands of principal United Nations organs and subsidiary bodies

A.    SECURITY COUNCIL

                                          

  • Membership in 1946, 1951-52, 1965-66, 1983-84, 1999 -2000

  • Peacekeeping operations

The Netherlands currently provides 900 personnel to the following peacekeeping missions (May 2004):

UN missions

  • United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (Externe link UNTSO) - Middle East

UN mandated missions

  • Operation Proxima, Macedonia

  • United Nations Protection Force (Externe link Stabilisation Force SFOR) - Bosnia-Herzegowina

  • Balkans Combined Air Operation Centre (BCAOC) - Italy

  • Kosovo Force (Externe link KFOR) - Kosovo

  • International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) – Afghanistan

Concluded UN missions with Dutch participation:

2003: Liberia: UNMIL
2002: Macedonië: Task Force Fox 
2001: Ethiopia/Eritrea: UNMEE
2001: Djibouti: Apache Detachment 
2001: Macedonia: Essential Harvest, Task Force Harvest
1998-2001: Cyprus: United Nations Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)
1997-2001: Albania: Multinational Advisory Police Element (MAPE)
1995-1996: Israel/Syria: United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)
1994-1996: FRY: Task Force Mostar (WEU)
1994-1996: FRY: International Conference on Former Yugoslavia (ICFY)
1994-1996: Georgia: OSCE
1993-1996: Haïti: United Nations Mission in Haïti (UNMIH)
1993-1994: Rwanda: (UNOMUR, UNAMIR, Provide Care)
1993-1995: Mozambique: United Nations Operation in Mozambique (UNOMOZ)
1993: South Africa: United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA)
1992-2000: Cambodia: UNAMIC, UNTAC, CMAC, UNDP
1991-1999: Angola: UNAVEM, CMATS, UNOPS
1991-1998: Iraq: United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)
1990-1991: Iraq - Kuwait: First Gulf War
1989-1990: Namibia: United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG)
1987-1989: Iraq - Iran: First Gulf War
1982-1995: Sinaï: Multinational Force and Observers (MFO)
1979-1985: Libanon: U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
1965-1966: India/Pakistan: United Nations Observation Mission (UNIPOM)
1963-1964: Yemen: United Nations Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM)
1960-1963: Congo: United Nations Operation in the Congo (UNOC)
1958: Lebanon: United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL)
1956: Israel/Egypt: First United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF-I)
1950-1954: Korea: Dutch UN-Force Korea
1947-1951: Greece: UN Special Committee on the Balkans (UNSCOB)

International tribunals  

Mr. Alphonsus Orie is a judge to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Mr. Hans Holthuis is the ICTY’s registrar.

Mr. Bert Swart is ad litem judge both to the ICTY and to the International Criminal Court for Rwanda

 

B.    GENERAL ASSEMBLY  

                                       

  • The GA, both its plenary and its 6 main committees, is made up of all 191 Member States. The Netherlands has been a member since 10 december 1945. It has been President of the GA in 1954 (E.N. van Kleffens). 

Standing Committees of the GA

  • Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgettary Questions : Michiel Crom (as of 2002); as of January 2005: Ronald Elkhuizen (2 years)

  • Committee on Contributions: Bert Meijerman (as of 2003)

Subsidiary Bodies of the GA with limited membership

  • Committee on Information (99 members)

  • Committee on Disarmament (65 members)

  • Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (113 membes)

  • Ad-Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean (43 members)

  • Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (65 members)

  • UN Human Settlements Programme (2003-2006)

 

C.     ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (Externe link ECOSOC)

Membership : 1947-48, 1955-60, 1973-75, 1977-79, 1983-85, 1989-91, 1995-97, 2001-03

  • Functional Commissions (membership):

    • Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Externe link CCPCJ): 2001-03

    • Commission on Human Rights (CHR): 1961-66, 1970-75, 1980-85, 1992-97, 2004-06

    • Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND): 1946-53, 1960-62, 1984-99, 2002-06

    • Commission on Population and Development (CPD): 1947-50, 1965-68, 1973-88, 1992-99, 2000-03, 2004-07

    • Commission for Social Development (CSocD): 1957-60, 1966-71, 1976-83, 1985-88, 1993-2000, 2005-08

    • Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD): 1993-2002, 2004-2006

    • Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): 1951-53, 1959-64, 1966-69, 1991-94, 2001-04, 2005-08

    • Statistical Commission (link): 1947-61, 1990- 93, 1997-2000, 2004-06

  • Regional Commissions

    • United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Externe link UN/ESCAP): permanent member

    • Economic Commission for Europe (Externe link UNECE): permanent member

    • Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Externe link ECLAC): permanent member

  • Expert Bodies

    • Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters: expert member

    • Committee of Experts on the transport of dangerous goods and of the globally harmonized system of classification and labelling of chemicals: expert member

    • Sub-committee of experts on the transport of dangerous goods: expert member

    • Sub-committee of experts on the globally harmonized system of classification and labelling of chemicals: expert member

 

D.     INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (Externe link ICJ)

Prof.Pieter Kooijmans is one of the fifteen judges (1997 – 2006)

 

E.     UN FUNDS AND PROGRAMMES (located in New York)

Executive Boards:

    • United Nations Development Programme (Externe link UNDP)   : 1996-98, 2000-2002, 2004-2006 

    • United Nations Fund for Population Activities (Externe link UNFPA): 1996-98, 2000-2002, 2004-2006

    • United Nations Children Fund (Externe link UNICEF) : 1975-88, 1989-97, 2000-2002, 2005-2007

 

F.      UNITED NATIONS SPECIALISED AGENCIES AND OTHER ORGANS

The Netherlands is a member of several boards of Specialised Agencies, located in Geneva,   Vienna, Rome, Nairobi, Paris and other cities hosting UN organisations, as well as of the Boards of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

G.     HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): Prof. Cornelius Flinterman ( - 2006)

  • Committee on the Rights of the Child: Prof. Jacob Egbert Doek (Chair: - 2007)

H.    SPECIAL MECHANISMS

Special Rapporteur on Torture, Prof. Theo van Boven.

 

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