54th Plenary Meeting of General Assembly: 51st Session

Voting concurrently with Security Council, General Assembly fills five vacancies on International Court of Justice at 54th plenary meeting of the 51st session.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 00:29:39
• Production Date: 6 November 1996
• Asset Language: Original; English; French; Spanish
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE - ICJ
• Subject Topical: ELECTIONS; JUDGES; VOTING
• MAMS Id: 2413280
• Parent Id: 845350

Description

Process Completed in Single Ballot: Judges from Algeria, United States, Russian Federation Re-elected; Joined by New Members from Netherlands, Brazil.

The General Assembly this morning elected five Judges to the International Court of Justice in a single round of balloting, in which all five achieved the required absolute majority of votes.

Judges Mohammed Bedjaoui (Algeria), Vladlen S. Vereshchetin (Russian Federation) and Stephen M. Schwebel (United States) were re-elected to their posts, and Judges Pieter H. Kooijmans (Netherlands) and Jose Francisco Rezek (Brazil) will sit at the Court for the first time. All five Judges will begin their new nine-year terms on 6 February 1997.

The election was held concurrently with the Security Council this morning, to fill vacancies left by five Judges whose terms will expire on 5 February 1997. The Security Council required three rounds of secret balloting, by the end of which the same five Judges had obtained the required absolute majority. The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 Judges and has its headquarters at The Hague.

As of 6 February 1997, the composition of the Court (with the date the term of each Judge expires) will be: Mohammed Bedjaoui (Algeria) (2006), Carl-August Fleischhauer (Germany) (2003), Gilbert Guillaume (France) (2000), Géza Herczegh (Hungary) (2003), Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom) (2000), Shi Jiuyong (China) (2003), Pieter H. Kooijmans (Netherlands) (2006), Abdul G. Koroma (Sierra Leone) (2003), Shigeru Oda (Japan) (2003), Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (Venezuela) (2000), Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar) (2000), José Francisco Rezek (Brazil) (2006), Stephen M. Schwebel (United States) (2006), Christopher G. Weeramantry (Sri Lanka) (2000), Vladlen S. Vereshchetin (Russian Federation) (2006).

For further details please see official record:
A/51/PV.54

For further details please see source:
MEETINGS COVERAGE