The dominance of India was quite obvious in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), permanent members of the United Nations Security Council holding veto power.
Dalveer Bhandari of India was finally elected to International Court of Justice (ICJ). Britain withdrew its candidate Christopher Greenwood from the match and withdrew his steps. Voting for the last seat of the ICJ was held in the International Court of Justice tonight. This was the first time in the ICJ established in 1945 when there will be no British judge.
Excluding his candidate from the race, the British ambassador said that "it is wrong to waste the valuable time of the Security Council and United Nations General Assembly for the next phase of the election."
In order to win the ICJ election, the candidate needs to get a majority in both the General Assembly and the Security Council. In this case, there was no voting in the first 11 rounds, therefore 12th round was required. One-third of the 15-member ICJ is selected for a period of nine years every three years. On November 9, the members of the UNGA and the Security Council had elected the judges for four out of five seats. Elections from India and UK were not held till now.
Supervisors have assessed that the permanent candidate of the United Nations Security Council from the election of Indian candidate Dalveer Bhandari for the final seat of the International Court is in the can. This can challenge their power. Between Bhandari and Britain's Christopher Greenwood, there was a tough competition for the re-election in the international court at The Hague. The United States, Russia, France and China were standing in favour of Greenwood, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. The fifth permanent member of the Security Council is the UK.
In the first 11 rounds, Bhandari got support from nearly two-thirds members of the General Assembly, but in the Security Council, he was behind three votes from Greenwood. The 12th round was to be held today and Britain had already taken its own step before this election.
Trusted sources said that the UK discussed the idea of a joint conference system in informal consultation with members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday. It is believed that Britain feared that if India got two-thirds of the vote, it would be very difficult to stop the Indian candidate from being elected to the ICJ for the Security Council. However, at a time when Britain left the field itself and the way for India's Dalveer Bhandari was cleared. However, this victory of India's democratically elected five permanent members of the veto power has dominated India on Britain, China, France, Russia, and America.