S/PV.8094 Security Council

In accordance with Article 11 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the Council will now hold a third meeting to elect one member of the International Court of Justice, by further ballots for the one seat remaining to be filled. May I take that the Council is now ready to proceed to the vote? It is so decided. The Council will now proceed to a new ballot. I request the Conference Officer to distribute the ballot papers.

Members of the Council should place an “X” in the box next to the names of the one candidate for whom they wish to vote. I would remind members of the Council that only those candidates whose names appear on the ballot are eligible for election, and that any ballot paper containing votes for more than one name will be considered invalid. * * *

I take it that all the members of the Council have now voted and I ask the Conference Officer to collect the ballot papers. * * *

All the ballot papers have been collected. I should like to remind Council members that in accordance with the established practice, the ballots will not be counted until it has been verified that the ballot papers in the General Assembly have also been collected. The Council will remain in session pending the receipt of that information. * * *

The result of the voting is as follows: Number of ballot papers: 15 Number of invalid ballots: 0 Number of valid ballots: 15 Number of abstentions: 1 Required majority: 8 Number of votes obtained: Mr. Dalveer Bhandari 5 Mr. Christopher Greenwood 9 Mr. Christopher Greenwood has accordingly received the required majority of votes in the Security Council. I have communicated the result of the voting to the President of the General Assembly in writing. 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 49th plenary meeting of the General Assembly, held today for the purpose of electing the one remaining member of the International Court of Justice, Mr. Dalveer Bhandari obtained an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly.” Accordingly, no candidate has received the required absolute majority of votes both in the Council and in the General Assembly. As no candidate has received the required absolute majority of votes in both the Council and the General Assembly, in accordance with Article 11 of the Statute of the Court, the Council will proceed to hold a fourth meeting to elect one candidate by further ballots for the one seat remaining to be filled. Accordingly, I shall adjourn this meeting of the Security Council and I shall immediately call to order the fourth meeting of the Security Council to elect one candidate by further ballot.