Judge Ronny Abraham (France) elected President of the International Court of Justice Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somalia) elected Vice-President
THE HAGUE, 6 February 2015.
Judge Ronny Abraham (France) was today elected President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by his peers and Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somalia) was elected Vice-President, each for a term of three years.
Biographies of President Abraham and Vice-President Yusuf, who have been Members of the Court since 15 February 2005 and 6 February 2009, respectively, can be found on the Court’s website (http://www.icj-cij.org) under the heading “Members of the Court”/“Current Members”.
The International Court of Justice, composed of 15 Members, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It delivers judgments which are final and binding upon disputes between States, and gives advisory opinions to United Nations organs and agencies that are authorized to request them under the Charter of the United Nations (for further details see below). There are
currently 13 cases on the Court’s General List.
Following the elections held on 6 November 2014 and 17 November 2014 by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council to fill the five seats which were due to fall vacant on 6 February 2015 (see Press Release No. 2014/32 and No. 2014/33),
the composition of the Court is now as follows:
President Ronny Abraham (France)
Vice-President Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somalia)
Judges Hisashi Owada (Japan)
Peter Tomka (Slovakia)
Mohamed Bennouna (Morocco)
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (Brazil)
Christopher Greenwood (United Kingdom)
Xue Hanqin (China)
Joan E. Donoghue (United States of America)
Giorgio Gaja (Italy)
Julia Sebutinde (Uganda)
Dalveer Bhandari (India)
Patrick Lipton Robinson (Jamaica)
James Richard Crawford (Australia)
Kirill Gevorgian (Russian Federation)
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