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GENERAL
CERD/SP/46/Add.1
6 December 1993
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Original: ENGLISH/FRENCH
MEETING OF THE STATES PARTIES
Fifteenth Meeting
New York, 12 January 1994
ELECTION OF NINE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION
OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS WILL
EXPIRE ON 19 JANUARY 1994, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
OF ARTICLE 8 OF THE CONVENTION
Note by the Secretary-General
Addendum
1.In addition to the nominations contained in document CERD/SP/46, the Secretary-General has received the following further nominations for the election of nine members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace those whose terms are due to expire on 19 January 1994 in accordance with the provisions of article 8 of the Convention:
Mr. Hamzat AHMADU (Nigeria)
Mr. Andrew CHIGOVERA (Zimbabwe)
Mr. Issa KINDO (Burkina Faso)
2.The biographical data of the nominees, as furnished by the States parties concerned, are contained in the annex to this document.
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ANNEX
Hamzat AHMADU (Nigeria)
Traditional title:Wali of Sokoto
Date of birth:15 August 1930
Civil status:Married
Education:1947-1949 -School for Arabic Studies, Kano (now Abdullahi Bayero University) Kano
1949-1950 -Clerical Training College (now Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria)
1954-1957 -Balham Tooting College - External Student London University, London
1959-1960 -Queen's College - Oxford University
1990 -Awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law by City University, Los Angeles.
Career:Date of first appointment - 7 April 1950, with the former Administrative Service of the Government of Nigeria.
1950 -Served in the Secretariat, Northern Nigeria, Kaduna
1953-1954 -Served in the former Northern House of Assembly
1957-1959 -Private Secretary to the Premier of Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto
1960 -Tranferred to the Federal Government Service in the Prime Minister's Office (Foreign Affairs Branch)
1960-1961 -Posted to Nigerian High Commission, London
1961-1964 -Posted to Nigerian Embassy in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, as Second and later First Secretary and Counsellor
1964-1965 -Transferred to Headquarters, Ministry of External Affairs, as Head of Consular and Treaties Department
Career1965-1966 -Head Asia Department, Ministry of External
(continued):Affairs and Officer on Special Duties on the Conduct and Operation of Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca
1966-1975 -Seconded to State House (Presidential Palace 1) Administrative Secretary to the Head of the Federal Military Government's, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces
1975-1978 -Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic
1978-1981 -Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Sept. 1981-April 1982 -Director, Protocol and National Assembly Liaison, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos
April 1982-1984 -Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Republic of Cameroon
April 1984 -Appointed Director-General (African Affairs), Ministry of External Affairs
1984-1986 -Director-General, African Affairs Directorate, Ministry of External Affairs
1986-1987 -Permanent Secretary and Head of the Nigerian Diplomatic Service, Ministry of External Affairs
1987 -Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United States of America, Washington, D.C.
Experience:1969-1975 -Member of the Nigerian delegations to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in London; the Heads of State and Government Conference of the OAU (Sixth to Twelfth Ordinary Sessions), the OAU Goodwill Mission of the Heads of State on the Arab-Israeli dispute which twice visited Israel and Egypt; and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Ottawa, Canada
Experience November 1977 -Member of the Nigerian delegation
(continued):to the Thirty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly and Nigerian Delegate on the Second Committee
July 1984 -Member of the Nigerian delegation to the Council of Ministers and Heads of State and Government of the OAU, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1985 -Member of the Nigerian delegation to the Council of Ministers and Heads of State and Government of the OAU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1986 to date -Member of the Nigerian delegation to the Forty-second session of the United Nations General Assembly;
Elected Independent Expert Member of the United Nations Committee against Racial Discrimination; re-elected in December 1989.
Organized and participated as a delegate to many State visits including to the United Kingdom, USSR, China, Ethiopia, etc. and Conferences of Heads of State and Government within and outside Nigeria. Travelled widely within Nigeria and many countries on State visits and conferences and on special assignments. Took part as an official in many negotiations both at the summit and at the official levels.
Decorations: Awarded decorations of the following countries:
Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Senegal, Benin, Togo, Niger, Mauritania, Guinea, Cameroon, Chad and the Gambia.
Foreign languages spoken:English, Arabic, German and elementary French.
Andrew CHICOVERA (Zimbabwe)
Date of birth:7 March 1953
Place of birth:Chirumanzu, Mvuma, Zimbabwe
Marital status:Married, with three children
Educational background:University of Zambia, 1973-1977, LL.B.
Law Practice Institute of Zambia, 1977-1978 - Postgraduate Diploma (Bar Examinations)
University of Texas, Dallas, 1985 - Postgraduate Diploma in International and Comparative Law
King's College, London, 1991-1992 - LL.M. specializing in International Business Law.
Other training includes:
Crown Agents Training Centre (Course on Crime Prevention, 1989) and UNITAR (Course on International Law, 1991).
Professional qualifications:
Advocate of the High Court of Zambia
Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Zimbabwe.
Career:1989 to
present -Deputy Attorney-General
1987-1989 -Acting Attorney-General
1984-1987 -Director of Public Prosecutions, Office of the Attorney-General
1982-1984 -Chief Law Officer, Office of the Attorney-General
1980-1981 -Registrar of Appellate and General Division of the High Court of Zimbabwe
1979-1980 -Partner in Forrest Price & Co. (law firm), Kitwe, Zambia
Career1977-1979 -Professional Assistant, Ellis & Co. (law
(continued):firm), Kitwe, Zambia
1975-1977 -Legal Assistant, Martin & Co. (law firm), Lusaka, Zambia.
Professional societies:Alumni International Association
Law Association of Zambia
Law Society of Zimbabwe
Chief National Correspondent for the United Nations Crime Prevention Unit
Regional Programme Leader for the Institute of International Arbitration.
Other activities:Chairperson for a number of international meetings including rapporteur for expert preparatory meeting for the Eighth United Nations Congress on Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
Resource person in crime prevention, corruption prevention, combat against organized international crime, drug trafficking, mutual assistance in criminal matters, trade supervision, transfer pricing and international trade at international symposia held in both Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom
Resource person for the United National Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), seminars and workshops on the legal aspects of debt management, held in Zimbabwe and Zambia (October 1993)
Member of the Judicial Service Commission from 1987 to 1989, responsible for recommending and approving appointments to judicial and top professional legal offices.
Publications:Legal Problems of Land Development in Zambia (dissertation presented to the University of Zambia Law Faculty as partial fulfilment of the LL.B. degree course)
PublicationsLegal Assistant in Zimbabwe (paper
(continued):presented at the Inter-American Legal Services Association Conference in San José, Costa Rica, 1981)
Planning for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in the Context of Development (paper presented to the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI) Seminar, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1987)
Crime Prevention and Alternatives to Imprisonment (paper presented to the United Nations Interregional Preparatory Meeting for the Eighth Congress, Vienna, Austria, 1988).
Issa KINDO (Burkina Faso)
Date and place of birth:27 July 1955, Séguénéga, Burkina Faso
Diplomas:Master's degree in law
Diploma from the National Judicial Training School, Paris
Posts held: Examining magistrate, 1985
Prosecutor of Faso Koudougou, 1985-1988
Prosecutor of Faso Kaya, 1988-1992
Director of Prison Administration and Social Rehabilitation, 1993
Member of the National Commission for Action to Combat Racial Discrimination
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