{"id":33863,"date":"2018-10-30T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33863"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:13:55","slug":"split-term-between-india-uk-suggests-thailand-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/split-term-between-india-uk-suggests-thailand-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Split term between India, UK, suggests Thailand envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/split-term-between-india-uk-suggests-thailand-envoy-4947095\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Split term between India, UK, suggests Thailand envoy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thailand\u2019s ambassador to India Chutintorn Gongsakdi has suggested a unique way out for the elections of a judge at the International Court of Justice by splitting the term of the judge between India and the UK.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Suggestions<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ambassador advised that the term should be split into six years each, adding one year each for good measure.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deadlock was broken with the New Zealand for World Trade Organization\u2019s director-general by splitting the 4-year term by 3 years each.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Election of the ICJ judge<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At stake is the election of the judge at the ICJ, which is hearing the crucial Kulbhushan Jadhav case, and the Indian nominee, Dalveer Bhandari, a former judge from the Supreme Court of India, is standing for re-election.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhandari will be competing with UK\u2019s candidate Christopher Greenwood, and there have been six rounds of voting. While Bhandari has got a simple majority at the UNGA, Greenwood has led the contest at the UNSC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The procedure of ICJ election<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to UN rules, the one who gets absolute majority in both the UNSC and UNGA is the winner.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since there has been a fractured verdict, India is hoping to get two-third majority at the UNGA and claim \u201cmoral victory\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The joint conference<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UK is pressing for the convening of a \u201cjoint conference\u201d between the UNGA and UNSC under Article 12 (1) of the ICJ statute.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A joint conference would be a meeting between six countries \u2013 three each from the UNGA and UNSC. As per the ICJ statute, the joint conference has full freedom to decide on a name for the court and need not confine itself to official candidates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, how these countries will be selected is not clear, since the ICJ rules are silent on the issue. This option has been last used in 1921.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Split term between India, UK, suggests Thailand envoy Context Thailand\u2019s ambassador to India Chutintorn Gongsakdi has suggested a unique way out for the elections of a judge at the International Court of Justice by splitting the term of the judge between India and the UK. Suggestions The ambassador advised that the term should be split&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/split-term-between-india-uk-suggests-thailand-envoy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Split term between India, UK, suggests Thailand envoy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704889897},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}