For first time in history, representative of Russian Federation was not elected to UN International Court of Justice
For the first time, the representative of Russia was not elected to the UN International Court of Justice: he lost to the representative of Romania.
Mykola Hnatovskyi, a Ukrainian international lawyer and judge of the European Court of Human Rights, drew attention to this on Facebook, Censor.NET reports.
Hnatovskyi points out that "for the first time, there will be no Soviet/Russian judge" at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague in connection with the election of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Bohdan Aureska.
"This is the second case when a permanent member of the Security Council will not be represented at the UN International Court of Justice (the first was Great Britain in 2017)," he added.
The UN International Court of Justice consists of 15 judges, and five new judges are elected every three years. Each judge represents a certain regional group of countries and must secure the support of members of the Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
