A/45/PV.39 General Assembly

15.  ELECTIO~S TO rILL VACANCIES IN PRINCIPAL ORGANS (c) ELECTION or rIVE MEMBERS or THE INTERNATIONAL COURT or JUSTICE (i) MEMORANDUM BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL (A/45/543) (ii) LIST or CANDIDATES (A/45/544/Rev.l) (iii) CURRICULA VITAE (A/45/545) The PRESIpENT: This meeting of the General Assembly has been convened for the purposo of continuing the election of members of the International Court of Justice. As members are aware, there is still one vacancy on the Court to be filled. The Assembly will now proceed to vote in respect of that remaining vacancy. Ballot papers are being distributed and I should like to remind members that votes may be cast for all the candidates whose names appear on the ballot paper. The names of Mr. Andres Aguilar Mawdsley, Mr. Gilbert Guillaume, Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings and Mr. Christopher Gregory Weeramantry, who were elected members of the Court at the previous meeting, have been deleted from the ballot paper, as have the narrles of Mr. Atsu-Koffi Amega and Mr. Samuel Asante. I also remind delegations that they should put a cross against the name of one candidate only. Any ballot paper on which more than one name is marked will ~e declared invalid. Votes may be cast only for those whose names appear on the ballot paper. At thQ invitation of the President, Mr. Pangy (BUlgaria), Ms. Cepeda (Dominican Republic), Mr. Conmy (Ireland) and Mr. Mfula (Zambia) acted as teller~. A vote was taken by secret ballot. the meeting was suspended at 7.10 p.m. and r6sumed at 7.35 p.m. ~: The result of the voting is as follows: ID,unber of ballot papers: 154 Number of invalid ballots: 2 Eumber of velid ballots: 152 Abstentions: 0 Number of members yotin:",:: 152 Bequired absolute majority: Nwnber of yotes obtained: Mr. Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar) 90 Mr. Seydou Modani Sy (Senegal) 50 Mr. Enrique P. Syquia (Philippines) 9 Mr. Edilbert Razafindralambo (Madagascar) 3 Mr. Dorab Patel (Pakistan) 0 Mr. Sompong Sucharitkul 0