New ICJ Members Elected

[ILJ Digest]

The General Assembly and the Security Council of the United Nations voted last week to elect five new members to the International Court of Justice.* The five judges haling from Jordan, France, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Somalia were affirmed for a nine-year term beginning in February 2009.
The International Court of Justice consists of 15 judges - three for Africa, two for Latin America, three for Asia, five for Western Europe and other States, and two for Eastern Europe and Russia.* One third of the membership is renewed every three years, and no two judges may be from the same country.
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