Pieter Kooijmans

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name = Pieter Kooijmans


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office = State Secretary of Foreign Affairs
term_start = 11 May 1973
term_end = 19 December 1977
monarch = Juliana of the Netherlands
primeminister = Joop den Uyl
predecessor = Tjerk Westerterp
successor = Durk van der Mei
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office2 = Minister of Foreign Affairs
term_start2 = 2 January 1993
term_end2 = 22 August 1994
monarch2 = Beatrix of the Netherlands
primeminister2 = Ruud Lubbers
predecessor2 = Hans van den Broek
successor2 = Hans van Mierlo
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office3 = Judge of the International Court of Justice
term_start3 = 1 March 1997
term_end3 = 1 March 2006
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predecessor3 = Luigi Ferrari Bravo
successor3 = Kenneth Keith
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birth_place = Heemstede, Netherlands
birthname = Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans
nationality = Dutch
party = Anti Revolutionary Party, Christian Democratic Appeal
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children = 4 children
residence = Wassenaar, Netherlands
alma_mater = Vrije Universiteit
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religion = Christian (Protestant)

Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans (born 6 July 1933) is a Dutch jurist, politician, and diplomat. He was a member of the Anti Revolutionary Party and is now a member of its successor party the Christian Democratic Appeal. He was State Secretary and later Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–1977 and 1993–1994). He served as a Judge on the International Court of Justice (1997–2006).

Biography

Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans was born on 6 July 1933 in Heemstede, Netherlands. His father was an engineer and a member of the city council of Heemstede.nl icon cite web
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He had his secundary education in Haarlem, where he attended the gymnasium in humanities. He earned his doctorandus degrees in economics and law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in respectively 1955 and 1957.

Following graduation, he joined the University's faculty as Professor of Public International Law and European Law, serving from 1965 to 1973. He joined the Dutch Foreign Ministry, as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1977. In 1976 and again in 1991, he served as a Lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. From 1978 to 1992, he served as a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden. From 1993 to 1994, he served as Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, succeeding Hans van den Broek. In 1995, he returned to his former position as Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden, serving until his appointment to the International Court of Justice.

On November 28, 2006 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands appointed Kooijmans knight in the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau.

On July 13 2007 Pieter Kooijmans was appointed Minister of State by the Cabinet of the Netherlands.

Orders and honorary titles

*Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1978)
*Commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau (1994)
*Knight in the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (2006)
*Minister of State (2007)

References

* [http://www.ljil.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?c=132 Peter Kooijmans in the Leiden Journal of International Law]
* [http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/content.jsp?objectid=17098&highlights=kooijmans Kooijmans appointed knight in House Order of Golden Lion of Orange]