statement

SPEECH OF H.E. JUDGE ABDULQAWI A. YUSUF, PRESIDENT, OF THE INTERNATIONAL
COURT OF JUSTICE, AT THE COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY
IN HONOUR OF DR. JOSÉ GUSTAVO GUERRERO
16 OCTOBER 2018
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to this ceremony at the Peace Palace to pay tribute to
Judge José Gustavo Guerrero. This is the place in which he spent a significant part of his life as
Judge of two courts, as Vice-President of two courts and as President of two courts: the Permanent

SPEECH BY H.E. MR. RONNY ABRAHAM, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, BEFORE THE SIXTH COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
27 October 2017
[Translation]
Mr. Chairman,
Distinguished delegates of the Sixth Committee,

SPEECH BY H.E.MR. RONNY ABRAHAM, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF
JUSTICE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE SEVENTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
26 October 2017
[Translation]
Mr. President,
Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is an honour for me to be addressing the General Assembly once again as it considers the
annual report of the International Court of Justice on its activities over the past year. I am happy to
be carrying on what is already a very old tradition.