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STORY: UN / ICJ MEMBERS ELECTION
TRT: 01:15
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 MAY 2025, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters
27 MAY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, General Assembly
3. Various shots, General Assembly ballot collection
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. Various shots, Security Council ballot distribution
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Evangelos C. Sekeris, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Greece:
“The candidate Mr. Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud received the required majority both of the Security Council and the General Assembly. He is duly elected as a member of International Court of Justice for a term beginning today, 27 May 2025, until 5 of February 2027.”
7. Wide shot, Council
Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud of Jordan was elected today (27 May) as a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a term of office beginning on 27 May 2025 until 5 of February 2027, to fill the vacancy in the International Court of Justice caused by the resignation of Judge Nawaf Salam (Lebanon), effective 14 January 2025.
After a single round of voting in the General Assembly and a single round of voting in the Security Council, the two chambers agreed on the winning candidate.
Greece’s Ambassador Evangelos C. Sekeris, in his capacity as President of the Council for the month of May announced that Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud is “duly elected” and congratulated him.
The ICJ is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. These organs vote simultaneously but separately. In order to be elected, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of the votes in both bodies. This sometimes makes it necessary for a number of rounds of voting to be held.
