Mr. Zhang Jun Permanent Representative of China to the UN (Photo: UN)
A meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Saturday appointed five news judged to the International Court of Justice.
According to a tweet posted by the United Nations today, Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu has been appointed as the judge to the International Court of Justice from Romania.
Similarly, Hilary Charlesworth from Australia, Sarah Hull Cleveland from the United States of America, Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco from Mexico, and Dire Tladi from South Africa have been appointed as appointed as judges to the International Court of Justice.
The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council, according to the UN Charter.
In the meeting chaired Mr. Zhang Jun Permanent Representative of China to the UN, Permanent representatives of the UN member states have expressed their views on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and called for an immediate cease-fire and passage for humanitarian assistance to the war-hit civilians.
Presenting his views Mr. Zhang, has said that the protection of civilians cannot be delayed and that there is no time to lose in saving lives, "There is no time to lose in saving lives. This is not a humanitarian crisis … but a crisis of humanity."
Briefing the meeting, UN WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that a child is killed every 10 minutes on average in Gaza, "Nowhere and no one is safe in Gaza. Imagine that you’re trapped in that situation… just imagination… that is why we are asking for a ceasefire." He further said that half of #Gaza’s 36 hospitals and 2 to 3 of its primary health care centers are not functioning at all.
Expressing his views at the meeting of the UN Security Council, Mr. Vassily A. Nebenzia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said, “We believe that the first step in that direction would be a prompt ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestine conflict zone." He further said that the enhanced foreign military presence in the conflict zone specifically American units… are also part of the overall escalation and this only escalates the tension.
Calling for immediate humanitarian assistance at the UN Security Council meeting, Dame Barbara Woodward, DCMG, OBE, Ambassador Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN said that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza… and that humanitarian crisis is deteriorating day by day.
Mrs. Nathalie Broadhurst Estival, Ambassador Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, stressed that "all lives are valuable."
Speaking at the Security Council meeting, Mr. Robert A. Wood, Deputy Permanent Representative and Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs said that the international community must not look away from the pain and suffering of innocent Palestinians nor can they go back to the way things were before October 7 either in Gaza or in the West Bank.
Alleging that Hamas has turned every inch of Gaza into a terror trap for 16 years, Mr. Gilad Menashe Erdan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN, commented, "For years, the UN has refused to establish verification mechanisms that can provide us a truthful picture of reality for years."
Presenting his views at the Security Council meeting, Mr. Riyad H. Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, called for a halt to the massacre right away, asking a question, "Bombs dropping on schools, universities, UN shelters…where should Palestinians go? To the sea or out of the Gaza Strip?”
Mansour further said they met again when 11,000 were killed in Gaza including 4,500 children… in these walls if they can hear well… the shouts of our children…abandoned by humanity."
Likewise, the Presidents of the General Assembly and Security Council have announced the following elected judges at the International Court of Justice:
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council meeting observed a minute of silence to remember the civilians lost during the crisis in the Middle East.
