Sweden appoints its members of OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration for a new mandate of six years

The Government of Sweden has renewed the mandates of or, alternatively, appointed new members to the Court for a mandate of six years starting in October 2021. The appointment of the conciliators, the arbitrator and his alternate were made in accordance with articles 3 and 4 of the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE.

Appointed as conciliators are Anne Ramberg, Attorney-at-Law and former Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association, and Marie Jacobsson, Ambassador and Principal Legal Adviser on International Law at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

The arbitrator is Mats Melin, former Justice and Chairman of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden. His alternate is Pål Wrange, Professor of Public International Law at Stockholm University.

Anne Ramberg and Mats Melin are also alternate members of the Bureau, the Court’s permanent executive body.

Sweden is the Depositary State of the Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE, signed on 15 December 1992 in Stockholm. The Stockholm Convention of 1992 entered into force on 5 December 1994 following the deposit of the 12th instrument of ratification.

Currently, 34 States are party to the Convention that provides mechanisms for the peaceful settlement of disputes between States parties to the Convention and/or OSCE participating States.