The election of seven new judges from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and western and eastern Europe, was held in New York from 26 to 24 June at a meeting of 147 States-Parties, signatories to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
None of the current judges, who had their counter-candidates, was not re-elected. The nine-year term of the newly-elected judges commences this October.
The Croatian law professor Vukas, who became a judge of this tribunal in 1996 and a vice-president in 2002, will be replaced by Pole Stanislaw Pawlak.