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Indian judge elected to ICJ ahead of UK candidate.

21 novembre 2017, 17:30

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Indian judge elected to ICJ ahead of UK candidate.

For the first time since the inception of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1946, the UK will have no representative on the bench of the UN’s most powerful court. Indian judge Dalveer Bhandari was appointed to the ICJ following the withdrawal of the UK’s candidate Sir Christopher Greenwood.

The UK withdrew its candidate after five rounds of simultaneous voting by the Security Council and the General Assembly in New York saw judges from Brazil, Lebanon, France and Somalia elected. The fifth seat remained to be allocated by another round of voting on Monday evening.