S/PV.3310 Security Council

I take it that the Council is now ready to proceed to the vote. It is so decided. I ask the Conference Officer to distribute the ballot papers. Members should place an "X" in the box next to the name of the candidate for whom they wish to vote. * * * I take it that all members of the Council have now marked their ballot papers. I request the Conference Officer to collect the ballot papers. * * * * See pp. 2-5 and 6 of S/PV.3309. All the ballot papers have been collected. I should like to remind the Council that the ballots will not be counted until it has been ascertained that the ballot papers have been collected in the General Assembly. The Council will remain in session while we await the receipt of that information. * * * (The President) I have now been informed that the ballot papers have been collected in the General Assembly. The counting of the ballots in the Security Council will now begin. The tellers will now count the ballots. There will be two independent countings of the ballots, one by each teller. * * * The result of the voting is as follows: Number of ballot papers: 15 Number of invalid ballots: 0 Number of valid ballots: 15 Required majority: 8 Number of votes obtained: Mr. José Luis Jesus (Cape Verde) ............ 9 Mr. Abdul G. Koroma (Sierra Leone) .......... 6

Mr. José Luis Jesus has thus received the required majority of votes in the Security Council. I shall communicate the result of the vote to the President of the General Assembly in writing. I request the Council to remain in session while we wait for the President of the General Assembly to inform the Council of the result of the voting in the Assembly. * * * (The President) I should like to inform the members of the Council that I have just received from the President of the General Assembly the following letter: "I have the honour to inform you that, at the 52nd plenary meeting of the General Assembly held today for the purpose of electing five members of the International Court of Justice, the following candidate obtained an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly: Abdul G. Koroma." Upon comparison of the lists of the General Assembly and the Security Council, we see that different candidates have been elected. As the balloting in the Security Council and the General Assembly has yielded different results, the Security Council will have to proceed to a third meeting on this item. The meeting rose at 7 p.m. (The President)