MADRID, 6 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Lebanese decide Nawaf Salam, who was everlasting consultant of Lebanon to the United Nations between 2007 and 2017, was elected this Tuesday president of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ), based mostly in The Hague, for a interval of three years.
Salam, a member of the courtroom since February 2018, represented Lebanon on the United Nations Safety Council between 2010 and 2011 throughout his two-year time period as a non-permanent member. Likewise, she assumed the presidency of the Council in Could 2010 and in September 2011.
“My election as president of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice is a superb accountability to attain worldwide justice and defend Worldwide Regulation,” Salam mentioned on the social community X, previously often called Twitter.
Together with Salam, Ugandan decide Julia Sebutinde has been appointed vice chairman, who has been a member of the courtroom since February 2012 and can maintain the place for 3 years. Earlier than becoming a member of the courtroom, she was a decide of the Particular Court docket for Sierra Leone from 2005 to 2011.
The appointments come at a time when the position of the ICJ has taken on particular relevance because of South Africa’s latest denunciation of genocide within the Gaza Strip. On this regard, the courtroom urged Israel to take “all attainable measures” to guard the Palestinian inhabitants.
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