Past Event:

On Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Swiss American Lawyers Association of Greater New York was happy to welcome:

Ambassador Christian Wenaweser,

the Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to theUnited Nations in New York and the current President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on:

The New Kid on the Block: 

TheInternational Criminal Court

and the Challenges to the International System

followed by a Q&A and discussion. 

The event will be held at the offices of Mayer Brown LLP, 1675 Broadway (at 52nd Street), New York, NY 10019.

RSVP by May 5 to dferzola@mayerbrown.com.

Get together from 6:30 PM, talk to begin at 7:00 PM sharp.

Ambassador Christian Wenaweser  has served as the Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the United Nations in New York since 2002 and currently is the President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). From 2004 to 2009, he served as Chairman of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression.

Other previously held functions include: Vice-President of the 61^st session of the UN General Assembly (2006-2007), Vice-Chair of the Open-Ended Working Group on Security Council Reform (2004-2005), Chairman of the Ad hoc Committee on the Scope of  Legal Protection under the 1994 Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (2003-2005), Chairman of the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee (2002).

Previously, Mr. Wenaweser worked as Counselor and Deputy Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the UN and as diplomatic officer in the Office for Foreign Affairs in Liechtenstein. Mr. Wenaweser studied literature, languages, history and philosophy at Zurich University and diplomacy at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.