{"id":188784,"date":"2018-02-13T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T11:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=188784"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T11:04:14","slug":"justice-abdulqawi-ahmed-yusuf-elected-president-icj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2018\/02\/13\/justice-abdulqawi-ahmed-yusuf-elected-president-icj\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf elected as the President of ICJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>International Court of Justice: <\/strong>The International Court of Justice on 06.02.2018, as per Article 29 of the Court&#8217;s Statute, elected Justice Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf as the President and Justice Xue Hanqin as the Vice-President of the Chamber of Summary Procedure and Budgetary and Administrative Committee. Both of them will serve a term of three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Yusuf will take over from French Judge Ronny Abraham to become the 25th President of ICJ as well as the third one from Africa. He has been a Judge at ICJ since 2009 and was elected as its Vice President in February, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Hanqin, was an Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Legal Counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and a member of the International Law Commission (re-elected in 2006 by the General Assembly for the term 2007-2011), having previously served in academic and diplomatic posts, including at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As provided under Article 29 of the Court&#8217;s Statute, for a speedy dispatch of business, the Court shall annually form a chamber composed of five judges and two separate judges for the purpose of replacing one&#8217;s who find it impossible to sit. The committee of the Court includes the Budgetary and Administrative committee, Rules committee and the Library committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Source: Press Release No. 2018\/11, dated 06-02-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Court of Justice: The International Court of Justice on 06.02.2018, as per Article 29 of the Court&#8217;s Statute, elected Justice Abdulqawi <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":131111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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