Salah el-Din Tarazi, who lived from December 24, 1917, in Damascus, to October 4, 1980, in The Hague, was a Syrian lawyer and diplomat who represented Syria at the United Nations General Assembly and served as Syria's ambassador to Belgium, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, China and Turkey between 1951 and 1974, and as Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1962 to 1964. He was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice, with his term beginning in February 1976, and served until his death in a traffic accident in The Hague on October 4, 1980.
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What happened to Salah el-Dine Tarazi's seat on the International Court of Justice after he died?
The Security Council set elections for 15 January 1981 to fill his seat and one other.
His seat fell vacant on his death in 1980. The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 480 unanimously on 12 November 1980 to set the date for elections to fill two vacancies on the Court, one left by Tarazi and the other by Judge Richard R. Baxter. The resolution decided that the elections would take place on 15 January 1981, at simultaneous meetings of the Security Council and the General Assembly.
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He represented his homeland at the meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations and as an ambassador to various countries.
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In 1949, he began a diplomatic career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where, interrupted by a position in 1951/1952 as chargé d'affaires in Belgium, he became Secretary General. He was then ambassador to the Soviet Union (1957/1958 and 1965-1970), Czechoslovakia (1958/1959), in China (1960/1961) and the Turkey (1970-1974). From 1962 to 1964 he was the Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations.
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Salah El-Dine Tarazi (Arabic: صلاح الدين ترزي, romanized: Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Tarazī; 24 December 1917 - 4 October 1980 in) was a Syrian lawyer and diplomat.
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In 1978 he worked as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Member Of: International Court of Justice, Lead section
He served as a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1976 until his death.
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was a Syrian lawyer and diplomat
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Wikidata Q2213787, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1917
Wikidata Q2213787, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1917-12-24
Wikidata Q2213787, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1980
Wikidata Q2213787, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1980-10-04
Wikidata Q2213787, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Damascus
Wikidata Q2213787, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): The Hague
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