UNITED NATIONS, Feb 8 (Hina) - Voting was completed late on Friday for judges to the first permanent global criminal court -- the International Criminal Court to be set up in the Netherlands, bringing the number of international
judges to 18.
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 8 (Hina) - Voting was completed late on Friday
for judges to the first permanent global criminal court -- the
International Criminal Court to be set up in the Netherlands,
bringing the number of international judges to 18. #L#
The first seven judges of the new permanent International Criminal
Court (ICC) were elected on Tuesday at the United Nation's
headquarters in New York.
Croatian candidate Ivo Josipovic, a university professor and
expert on criminal procedural and international procedural law,
did not make it by the narrowest margin.
One hundred and thirty-nine nations have signed and 88 countries
have ratified the treaty creating the tribunal, but only the 85
nations that ratified the treaty by Dec. 2 were eligible to vote in
this week's elections. They elected 11 men and seven women to serve
on the new tribunal.
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