Statements of the President
Statement at a virtual event organized by the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea: Law-making in the law of the sea and maritime law,13 August 2020
Statement given at the signing ceremony to adopt the text of a Model Agreement between the Government of Singapore and the Tribunal, 11 June 2020
Statement on Agenda item 74 (a) at the plenary of the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 10 December 2019
Acceptance speech on being awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Hamburg, 4 December 2019
Statement given at the opening of the ITLOS regional workshop, Montevideo, 13 November 2019
Statement at the 30th Annual Informal Meeting of Legal Advisers in New York, 29 October 2019: 'Is there a place for judicial dialogue between ITLOS and the ICJ?'
Keynote address given at the conference 'How healthy is the ocean’s constitution? 25 Years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea', Hamburg, 17 October 2019
Statement given on the occasion of the Twenty-fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the establishment of the International Seabed Authority, Kingston, 25 July 2019
Statement given on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the IMO IMLI in London, 25 June 2019
'Some thoughts on dispute settlement under a new legal instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction', presented at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York, 19 June 2019
Statement given on the occasion of the presentation of the Report of the Tribunal at the twenty-ninth Meeting of States Parties, 17 June 2019
Statement on Agenda item 78 (a) at the plenary of the seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 11 December 2018
Keynote Statement 'Disputes involving scientific and technical matters and ITLOS' at the New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea Conference, Reykjavik, 28 June 2018
Statement given on the occasion of the presentation of the Report of the Tribunal at the twenty-eighth Meeting of States Parties, 11 June 2018
Keynote Statement 'Building Transformative Partnerships for Ocean Sustainability: The Role of ITLOS' at the 2018 WMU Global Ocean Conference, Malmö, 8 May 2018
Statement given at the opening of the ITLOS regional workshop, Mindelo, 2 May 2018
Statement given at the ITLOS Round Table 'Proceedings available before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in cases involving the arrest and detention of vessels': 'Introduction and overview of compensation cases before the Tribunal for the arrest and detention of vessels', 28 March 2018
Statement on Agenda item 77 (a) at the plenary of the seventy-second session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 5 December 2017
