United Nations Security Council Resolution 1340

United Nations Security Council resolution 1340, adopted unanimously on 8 February 2001, after recalling resolutions  808 (1993), 827 (1993), 1166 (1998) and 1329 (2000), the Council forwarded a list of nominees for permanent judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to the General Assembly for consideration.

The list of nominees proposed by the Secretary-General Kofi Annan was as follows:


 * Carmel A. Agius (Malta)
 * Richard Banda (Malawi)
 * Mohamed Amin El Abbassi Elmahdi (Egypt)
 * David Hunt (Australia)
 * Claude Jorda (France)
 * O-Gon Kwon (South Korea)
 * Liu Daqun (China)
 * Abderraouf Mahbouli (Tunisia)
 * Richard May (United Kingdom)
 * Theodor Meron (United States)
 * Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (Zambia)
 * Rafael Nieto Navia (Colombia)
 * Leopold Ntahompagaze (Burundi)
 * Alphonsus Martinus Maria Orie (Netherlands)
 * Fausto Pocar (Italy)
 * Jonah Rahetlah (Madagascar)
 * Patrick Lipton Robinson (Jamaica)
 * Almiro Simões Rodrigues (Portugal)
 * Miriam Defensor Santiago (Philippines)
 * Wolfgang Schomburg (Germany)
 * Mohamed Shahabuddeen (Guyana)
 * Demetrakis Stylianides (Cyprus)
 * Krister Thelin (Sweden)
 * Volodymyr Vassylenko (Ukraine)
 * Karam Chand Vohrah (Malaysia)