DATO' NOOR FARIDA BINTI MOHD ARIFFIN

Malaysia

Female

77

Non Active

Barrister-at-Law (Gray's Inn), United Kingdom

Dato' Noor Farida completed her legal studies at the Inns of Court in London. She joined the Judicial and Legal Service in February 1971 where she served in various capacities including magistrate, senior assistant registrar in the High Courts of Kuala Lumpur and Penang, legal officer with the Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister's Department, Director of the Legal Aid Bureau and Sessions Court Judge. Dato' Noor, the Co-Agent of Malaysia for the Sipadan and Ligitan Case against Indonesia before the International Court of Justice in the Hague, has had a long and distinguished career spanning more than 40 years in the Public Service before her retirement. Dato’ Noor previously held a number of key positions, including Special Adviser on Maritime Issues to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Malaysia, an Alternate Director at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), Director-General of the Research, Treaties and International Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador-At-Large for the High-Level Group on Follow-up to the ASEAN Charter (HLEG), Director of the Women and Development Programme, Human Resource and Development Group at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, headed the newly established Legal Division of the Ministry in 1993 and in 1996 was appointed the Under-Secretary of the newly formed Territorial and Maritime Division of the Foreign Ministry. Between 2000 and 2007, she was the Ambassador of Malaysia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was also concurrently appointed the Malaysian Co-Agent to the International Court of Justice for the Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan Case against Indonesia, and was the Malaysian Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (“OPCW”) which is based in the Hague. She was subsequently elected to the Chair of the 8th Conference of States Parties of the Chemical Weapons Convention in October 2003. Prior to this at the First Review Conference of the above Convention (April/May 2003), she was elected to chair the Drafting Group on the Political Declaration. Dato' Noor was again appointed the Malaysian Co-Agent by the Government when Malaysia and Singapore agreed to submit the Pulau Batu Puteh dispute to the International Court of Justice.

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