Russian judge will no be in International Court of Justice for first time in history
Pravda Ukraine
On Thursday, 9 November, a representative of Russia was not elected to the International Court of Justice for the first time ever. He lost to the representative of Romania, former Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu.
Source: Mykola Hnatovskyi, a Ukrainian international lawyer and a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Representatives of the Russian Federation Kirill Gevorgyan and Romanian Bogdan Aurescu were nominated from the Eastern Europe region. Aurescu won, receiving 117 votes from members of the General Assembly. According to the European Pravda, only 77 votes were given for the Russian candidate in the General Assembly.
The other winning nominees, representatives of Mexico, the US, Australia and South Africa, were given 143, 135, 117 and 113 votes, respectively.
Hnatovskyi points out that with the election of Aurescu, “for the first time ever, there will be no Soviet/Russian judge”, in the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
“This is the second time that a permanent member of the Security Council will not be represented at the International Court of Justice (the first was the UK in 2017).”
Bogdan Aurescu headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania for almost five years – from November 2019 to June 2023, and before that, for one year from 2014 to 2015.
The International Court of Justice comprises 15 judges, with five new judges elected every three years. Each judge represents a certain regional group of countries and must enlist the support of the Security Council and the UN General Assembly members.
The UN International Court of Justice is considering several complaints of Ukraine against Russia related to aggression, in particular that Russia used the fictional “genocide in the Donbas” to justify its full-scale invasion.
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