The Security Council meets today to take up a note by the Secretary-General titled "Date of an election to fill a vacancy in the International Court of Justice".
The election will be to fill the seat of Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (Somalia), who informed the President of the International Court of Justice, pursuant to Article 13, of his resignation as a member of the Court, effective 30 September 2025.
Article 14 of the Statute of the Court provides that vacancies shall be filled by the same method as that laid down for the first election, subject to the following provision: the Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occurrence of the vacancy, proceed to issue the invitations provided for in Article 5, and the date of the election shall be fixed by the Security Council.
