The Department provides the Office with a shortlist of candidates and the Office provides recommendations the final decision is that of the Department.

The selection panel for the Commission screened 150 candidates nominated by the Liberian public and provided a shortlist of names to Chairman Bryant on 23 September.

The Special Rapporteur is concerned to note that, in the absence of a Supreme Court, which is responsible for proposing a shortlist of candidates, it is impossible to appoint the members of the Constitutional Court.

This situation came about because all the members of the Constitutional Court were dismissed and it is legally impossible to set up a new Court until the Supreme Court, which is responsible for submitting a shortlist of candidates, is appointed.

The events of the past few months are the consequences of shortsightedly seeking to impose one s will while ignoring the interests of one s partners. A shortlist of such faits accomplis would include NATO enlargement, the war in Yugoslavia (particularly Kosovo), missile defense plans, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.