3x Arbitrators elected ICSID ARB/20/29

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December 
1
9
, 2020 
 
By email 
 
Human Rights Defenders Inc., 
as assignee of Mr. Natale Palazzo, Mr. 
Rodolfo Scodeller and Mr. Antonio Basile 
c/o Mr. Giuliano Stefano Wildhaber 
Human Rights Defenders Inc. 
Postfach 118
 
CH-9606 Bütschwil / SG 
Swiss Confederation 
 
 
Swiss Confederation 
c/o Mr. Lukas Siegenthaler 
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs 
Holzikofenweg 36 
3003 Bern
 
Swiss Confederation 
  
and 
c/o Mr. Matthias Scherer 
 
Dr. Veijo Heiskanen  
Mr. David Bonifacio  
Mr. Baptiste Rigaudeau 
Lalive 
Rue de la Mairie 35 
1207 Geneva 
Swiss Confederation 
 
 
 
Re: 
Human Rights Defenders Inc., as assignee of Natale Palazzo, Rodolfo Scodeller and 
Antonio Basile v. Swiss Confederation  
(ICSID Case No. ARB/20/29) 
 
Dear 
Sirs, 
 
 We write further to our letter of November 24, 2020 regarding the constitution of the 
Tribunal in this proceeding.
 
 
On November 17, 2020, the Respondent confirmed its appointment of Mr. Toby Landau 
QC and requested that the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council appoint the arbitrators 
not yet appointed 
pursuant to
 Article 38 of the ICSID Convention. Subsequently, on November 
24, 2020, the Responden
t invoked 
Article 37(2)(b) 
of the ICSID Convention 
to establish the 
number of arbitrators and 
the method of their appointment. 
 
 
Also on November 24, 2020
, the Secretariat informed the Parties that it would 
seek the 
appointment of Mr. Landau
, who accepted his appointment on November 30, 2020.  In the same 
correspondence, ICSID indicated that it would 
proceed to appoin
t the arbitrators not yet appointed 
pursuant to 
the Respondent's invocation of 
Article 38.  ICSID also conveyed an offer to assist the 
Parties in selecting a mutually agreeable presiding arbitrator by conducting a ballot procedure 
should the Parties agree to such procedure.  The Respondent agreed to such a procedure on 
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November 27, 2020.  In its letter of December 7, 2020, the Claimant did not agree to the ballot 
procedure for the selection of the presiding arbitrator, proposing instead to use a ballot procedure 
to select a five-member tribunal.  To date, the Centre is unaware that the Claimant's proposal has 
been accepted by the Respondent. Therefore, the Tribunal continues to be constituted on the basis 
of 
Article 
37(2)(b), and the Tribunal will be composed of three arbitrators, one appointed by each 
Party and the presiding arbitrator appointed by agreement of the Parties.  
 
Absent agreement of both Parties to ICSID's proposed ballot procedure as proposed on 
November 24, 2020, such process will not be conducted.   
 
Hence
, the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council will proceed to appoint the two 
arbitrators not yet appointed
 pursuant to Article 38. It is our intention to propose to the Chairman 
of the ICSID Administrative Council the appointment of 
Mr. Gabriel Bottini, a national of 
Argentina, as co-arbitrator in the present case, and Sir Daniel Bethlehem, a national of the United 
Kingdom, as the presiding arbitrator.  Mr. Bottini was designated to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators 
by 
the Chairman of the ICSID Administrative Council, 
and Sir Daniel Bethlehem was designated 
to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators by the United Kingdom.  Their curriculum vitae are attached. 
 
 Please note that Mr. Bottini makes the following disclosure: "I am acting as arbitrator 
appointed by the respondent in an investment arbitration where the claimant is represented by Dr. 
Veijo Heiskanen and other lawyers of Lalive.  The other arbitration bears no connection to the 
present case or to the parties involved in this case. Thus, I do not consider that this affects in any 
way my impartiality and independence." 
 
 Sir Daniel Bethlehem has also informed the Secretariat that he is acting as a presiding 
arbitrator in an arbitration where a party is represented by Lalive. 
 
He 
explained to ICSID that the 
other arbitration bears no connection to the present case. 
 
 If either party wishes to submit any observations related to these proposed appointments, 
these should be received by 
Wednesday, December 23, 2020.  
 
 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 
 
 Meg Kinnear 
 Secretary-General 
 
Attachments 
 
 
 
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