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Japan’s Yuji Iwasawa wins seat at UN court

Panorama of the International Court of Justice court room, principal judicial organ of the United Nations located at The Hague. (Shutterstock)
Panorama of the International Court of Justice court room, principal judicial organ of the United Nations located at The Hague. (Shutterstock)
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13 Nov 2020 04:11:00 GMT9
13 Nov 2020 04:11:00 GMT9

UNITED NATIONS: Judges from Japan, China, Germany, Slovakia and Uganda won seats Thursday on the International Court of Justice, the UN’s top judicial organ.

In the contested race, eight candidates were vying for five seats on 15-member world court based in The Hague, Netherlands, whose job is to settle disputes between countries.

After two rounds of voting, four current members of the court — Julia Sebutinde of Uganda, Xue Hanqin of China, Yuji Iwasawa of Japan and Peter Tomka of Slovakia — were re-elected, and Germany’s Georg Nolte was elected.

Candidates from Nigeria, Rwanda and Croatia lost their bids to join the International Court of Justice.

Five judges are elected to the court every three years by majority vote in both the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council. Since the first election in 1946, the voting has been conducted by secret ballot in simultaneous meetings of the 193-member assembly and 15-member council.

AP

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