S/PV.909 Security Council

The Security Council will now proceed to the election of new members of the International Court of Justice. 4. As indicated on the agenda, there will be two separate stages in the election. The first will consist in filling the seat left vacant by the death of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht on 8 May 1960. Let me remind you that the term of office of the candidate to be elected to this seat will expire on 5 February 1964. 5. Then, during the second stage, we shall elect five other members of the International Court of Justice to fill the seats which will become vacant' on 5 February 1961, when the term of office of five of the present members will expire. 6. As provided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Gel}eral Assembly is now meeting in order to elect one member of the Court, following the same procedure as ours here. 7. If no member of the Council has any objection, we will begin by electing one member of the International Court of Justice. The Couricil has before it certain documentation concerning the question of filling this seat. Thus, document S/4483/Rev.1 contains a list of all the candidates, drawn up in accordance with Article 7 of the Statute of the Court. Lord McNair and Mr. Waldock, both of the United Kingdom, have informed the Secretary-General of their wish that they should not be considered as candidates S/4483/Add.1 and 3. The curricula vitae of the candidates will be found in documents S/4479 and S/4483 and Add.2. The Council also has before it the Secretary-General's memorandum [S/4457] on the present composition of the Court and the procedure for the two elections, in the Council and in the General Assembly. Under Article 10, paragraph 1, ofthe Statute ofthe qourt, the candidate who obtains an absolute majority of votes in the Ceneral Assembly and in the S':'lcurity Council shall be considered as elected. The candidate who receives a minimum of six votes in the-'Council will therefore be considered as elected by the Council. Only those candidates whose names appear on the ballot paper are eligible. 8. If there is no objection, we will now proceed to the ballot.

Ihave just received a letterfrom the Presidentofthe General Assembly informing me that Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, of the United Kingdom, has obtained an absolute majority in the vote in the General Assembly.Accordingly, as Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice has obtained an absolute majority in both the Assembly and the Security Council, he is elected to the seat left vacant by the death of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. 12. The Security Council will now proceed to the election of five members of the Court to fill the seats which will become vacant on 5 February 1961, the date of expiry of the terms of office of Judges Helge Klaestad, Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Green H. Hackworth, Enrique C. Armand Ug6n and Feodor 1. Kojevnikov. 13. Document S/4474/Rev.1 contains the list of candidates and states that Mr. Kojevnikov and Mr. Tunkin, both of the Soviet Union, do not wish to stand for election. The candidatures of Mr. Hackworth, of the United States, and Mr. Prodjodikoro, ofIndonesia, have also been withdrawn (S/4474/Rev.1/Add.1 and 2). Documents S/4479 and Add.1 contain the curricula vitae of all the candidates. 14. Lastly, I should like to remind youthat the Secretary-General's memorandum [S/4457] indicates the procedure to be followed for the election. According to Article 10, paragraph 1 of the Statute of the Court, those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly and in the Security Council shall be considered as elected. Therefore, those candidates who receive a minimum of six votes in the Council will be considered as elected by the Council. If more than five candidates obtain the reqUired majority, the procedure whichhas beenfollowed in the ,past is outlined inparagraph14of the Secretary- General's memorandum. This procedure ~s in harmony with rule 61 of the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council.

We will resume the election of members of the International Court of Justice. The Presidentofthe Assembly has just informed me that the General Assembly has elected five members to fill the five seats which will become vacant inthe International Court ofJustice on 5 February 1961. The following candidates have obtained an absolute majority, as stipulated in the Statute of the International Court ofJustice: Mr. Philip C. Jessup, Mr. Vladimir M. Koretsky, Mr. Kotaro Tanaka, Mr. Jose Luis Bustamante·y Rivero, Mr. Gaetano Morelli. 18. Let me remind the Council that four out of these five names are those of candidates elected by the Security Council bythe required absolute majority. The Security Council and the General Assembly are therefore in agreement about the following candidates: Mr. Jessup, Mr. Koretsky, Mr. Morelli, Mr. Tanaka. 19. OR the other hand, the General Assembly and the Security Council are not in agreement about the last candidate, the Assembly having elected Mr. Bustamante y Rivero and the Council, Mr. Sapena Pastor. 20. Accordingly, under rule 61 ofthe provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council, we mustproceed to a new election to fill only the fifth seat which will become vacant in the International Court of Justice. 21. In accordance with previous procedure, I will now declare the 909th meeting of the Security Counoil closed. The meeting rose at 6.50 p.m. 18. Je rappelle au Conseil de s€lcurit€l que, sur ces cinq noms, quatre correspondent aux noms des candidats elus par le Conseil de securit€l a la majorit€l absolue requise. Il y a donc concordance entre le Conseil de securite et l'Assembl€le g€ln€lrale sur les candidats suivants: M. Jessup, M. Koretsky, M. Morelli, M. Tanaka. 19. Par contre, il y a d~saccord entre llAssembl~e g~n~rale et le Conseilde s~curi~ en ce qui concerne le dernier candidat, l~ssembl~eayant ~luM. Bustamante y Rivero et le Conseil, M. Sapena. Pastor. 20. Conformement a l'article 61 du r~glement interieur provisoire du Conseil de securite, nous devons donc proceder a une nouvelle election pour pourvoir uniquement le cinqui~me si~ge qui deviendra vacant a la Cour internationale de Justice. 21. Conformement aux precedents, je vais declarer close la 909~mf) seance du Conseil de securite. La seance est levee d 16 h 50. Le. commonde. el dem"nd,,; dlt renseignemenl. emanant d. pay. ou iI n·ui.le pas encore de depo.il"ire. peuvent "re aoressee. c la Section de. venle., Service de. publicalion., Organi.alion de. Nalian. Unie., New Yorlc (flats·Uni. d·Ame· rique), ou a I" Seclion cle. venlo., Ollice europeen de. Nalion. Unie., P"/ai. de. Nalion., GeneVQ (Suisse). Litho in U oN. ·Price: $U.s. 0.35: 2/6 stg.: Sw. fr. 1.50 4-471-october 1961-1.725 (or eqUivalent in other currencies) Orders "nd inquiries 'r{Jm counlrk" "01 list.d above m"y be senl 1o: 5,,1.. Section, publi.hing Sevice, United Nalion., New Yorlc, U.S.A.; c>r Sale. Section, Uniled Nalion•• p"l"i. de. N,,'ion•• G.neva, Swilzer/and. 11.... lur 21-58, Panam6. PARAGUAY Agencia de Librerias de Salvador Nlzza, Ca!!e Pte. franco No. 39...3. Aluncion. pERU-PEROtJ Librerla Internacional del Peru, S.A•• Cosilla 1417, Limo. PHILIPPINES Alemar's Book Store. 769 Rilal Avenue, Manila. PORTUGAL Livra.ia Rodrigue., 166 Rua Aurea, li.boa. SINGApORE.SINGApOUR The City Book Store. Ltd•• Callyer Quay. SpAIN.ESpAGNE Libreria Bosch, 11 Randa Universidad, Barcelona. Librerla Mundi·Prensa. Castello 37. Ma· drid. SWEDEN·SUEDE C. E. Fritze'. Kungl. Havbakhandel A.B, Fredlg'!tan 2, Stackholm. SWITZERLAND.SUISSE Librairle Payot. S.A., Lausanne. Geneve. Hon. Raunhardt. KirchgalSe 17. ZUrich 1. THAILAND.THAILANDE Promuan Mit, Ltd•• 55 Chakrawat Road, Wat Tuk. Bangkok. TURKEY.TURQUIE Librairie Hachette, <f69 Istiklal Caddesi, Beyoglu. Istanbul. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA· UNION SUD-AFRICAINE Van Schaik's ,~ookstore (Ply). Ltd•• Church Str~el. '''''' 7:14, Pretarla. UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REpUBLlCS.UNION DES REpUIlLlQIIES SOCIALlSTES SOVIETIQUES Melhdunarodnaya Knyiga Smolenlkaya Ploshchad. Moskva. UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. REpUBLlQUE ARABE UNIE Librolrie "La Renaillance d'Egypte", 9 Sh. Adly Pasha. Cairo. UNITED KINGDOM·ROYAUME.UNI H. M. Stationery Ollice. P.O. Box 569, London. S.E. 1 (and HMSO branches In Belfast, Birmingham. !lristal. Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester). UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ETATS·UNIS D'AMERIQUE Sale. Section. Publi.hing Service, United Natians, New York. URUGUAY Representacion de Editariales, Prof. H. D·Elia. Plala Cogancha 13..2. 1 0 pilO, Montevideo. VENEZUELA Libreria del Este. Av. Miranda No. 52. Edf. Galipon. Caracas. VIET·NAM librairie.Papeterie Xuan Thu. 185. rue Tu·Do, B. P. 283, Saigon. YUGOSLAVIA.YOUGOSLAVIE Conkarjeva Zaloiba, Ljubljana. Slovenia. Driavna Predule~e. Jugallovenska Knji· go. Teraliie 27/11. 8eagrad. Prosvjeta. 5. Trg Bratltva i Jedinstva. Zagreb. [6181]