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Results of the election of the 12th meeting of States parties to CAT

The 12th meeting of States parties took place in Geneva on 13 October 2009 to elect members to replace the five current members whose terms expires on 31 December 2009.

The five candidates elected to the Committee against Torture, for a term of four years as of 1 January 2010 are:

Name of Member	Nationality	Term expires in
Ms. Essadia BELMIR	Morocco	2013
Mr. Alessio BRUNI	Italy	2013
Mr. Fernando MARIÑO MENENDEZ	Spain	2013
Ms. Nora SVEAASS	Norway	2013
Mr. Xuexian WANG	China	2013

Note that Ms. Belmir, Mr. Mariño Menendez, Ms. Sveaass and Mr. Wang were already members of the Committee against Torture.

12th meeting of State Party CAT/C/SR.15: E | F | R | S

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