Indian candidate Dalveer Bhandari and Britain's Christopher Greenwood are locked in a neck-and-neck fight for re-election to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). <br/><br/>The 193 assembly members and 15 council members will reconvene on Monday for deciding between Dalveer Bhandari and Greenwood. In the sixth round for the final judge seat yesterday, Bhandari won 115 votes in the General Assembly to Greenwood's 76. <br/><br/>But at the Security Council the result was reversed, necessitating another round of voting. As per the United Nation's ICJ election rules, candidates must obtain a majority of 97 votes in the Assembly and eight in the Security Council. Both elections are held simultaneously but independently of each other. <br/><br/>The ICJ is made up of 15 members, and a third of them are up for re-election every three years. Based in The Hague, the ICJ is tasked with prosecuting those responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity when national courts are unwilling or unable.
News On AIR | November 10, 2017 1:18 PM
India's Dalveer Bhandari & Britain's Christopher Greenwood locked in neck-&-neck fight for re-election to ICJ