un general assembly & security council elect 4 justices, leaving 1 opening unfilled

The UN General Assembly and Security Council, meeting in parallel, elected four members of the ICJ on Thursday, 6 November 2014. They could not agree on who should fill the fifth open slot, and met again Friday to try to finish the election. They failed to decide between two candidates (Susana Ruiz Cerutti of Argentina and Patrick Lipton Robinson of Jamaica), and a third round is scheduled for 17 November 2014.

Press Release from the ICJ (PDF)

Official UN Photo: Raimonda Murmokaitė (right), Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the UN, casts her country’s ballot in the Security Council.