Election of a Member of the International Court of Justice

A/DEC/76/403View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 115c Election of 1 member of the International Court of Justice, published in 2021.

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2025	A/DEC/80/403	Election of a member of the International Court of Justice	—	—
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2010	A/DEC/64/426 B	Election of a member of the International Court of Justice	—	—

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Appointment of Officials Judges

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at its 27th plenary meeting, on 5 November 2021, and the Security Council, at its 8897th meeting, on the same date, proceeded independently of one another to elect, in accordance with Articles 2 to 4, 7 to 12, 14 and 15 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, rules 150 and 151 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly and rules 40 and 61 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Council, a member of the Court for the unexpired term of office of James Richard Crawford (Australia) whose death occurred on 31 May 2021.2

Having obtained the required absolute majority of votes in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, Hilary Charlesworth (Australia) was elected as a member of the Court for a term of office beginning on 5 November 2021 and expiring on 5 February 2024.

As a result, as of 5 November 2021, the International Court of Justice is composed as follows: Ronny ABRAHAM (France),** Mohamed BENNOUNA (Morocco),* Dalveer BHANDARI (India),** Antônio Augusto CANÇADO TRINDADE (Brazil),** Hilary CHARLESWORTH (Australia),* Joan E. DONOGHUE (United States of America),* Kirill GEVORGIAN (Russian Federation),* IWASAWA Yuji (Japan),*** Georg NOLTE (Germany),***

_______________ 1 Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Eritrea, India, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia and Ukraine are serving their second consecutive term. 2 See A/76/337-S/2021/821.

Patrick Lipton ROBINSON (Jamaica),* Nawaf SALAM (Lebanon),** Julia SEBUTINDE (Uganda),*** Peter TOMKA (Slovakia),*** XUE Hanqin (China)*** and Abdulqawi Ahmed YUSUF (Somalia).** _________________ * Term of office expires on 5 February 2024. ** Term of office expires on 5 February 2027. *** Term of office expires on 5 February 2030.

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