(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) New York, March 1 (Petra)--The United Nation Security Council (UNSC) late Wednesday decided that a vacancy on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) would be filled by election in June.
Unanimously adopting resolution 2403 (2018), the council noted with regret the resignation of the ICJ, Hisashi Owada, which would take effect 7 June.
Owada became an ICJ judge in 2003 after serving as vice foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations. He was the first Japanese president of the court, holding the post between 2009 and 2012.
The Statute of the Court required the council to fix a date for the election, members decided the date would be 22 June, at a meeting of the Security Council and a concurrent meeting of the General Assembly.
The ICJ is one of the six main organs of the UN, which also include the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat.
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