| For Intl Court of Justice
Dubious Tomka Fourth As Nigeria Blown Out Amid
French Corruption
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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UN GATE, Nov 11 –
In the UN's selection process
for five judges of the
International Court of
Justice, here were the General
Assembly results on November
11, with Nigeria's candidate
getting blown out, and Peter
Tomka getting fewer votes than
candidates from Japan, Germany
and China, with his history
exposed by Inner City Press
(for) now banned from the UN:
Iwasawa (Japan) -
161
Nolte (Germany) -150
Xue, Hanqin (China) -144
Tomka (Slovakia) -
141
Sebutinde (Uganda) - 124
Ugirashebuja (Rwanda) -
97
Seršić (Croatia) 71
Elias, Taoheed (Nigeria)
56
Inner City Press live tweeted
the process: Before being
banned from the UN by corrupt
SG Antonio Guterres, Inner
City Press reported on ICJ
Judge Peter Tomka of Slovakia,
who "assured Security Council
[then] member Colombia of a
positive outcome in a pending
case, by one judge prior
to voting and one judge
just after, pointing at
Tomka's opponent, from
Bulgaria."
Inner City Press:
"Judgeships on the ICJ are
subject to a geographic
understanding; Tomka's
re-election was challenged by
Tsvetana Kamenova of Bulgaria,
which was said to still be
angry about non-compliance
with a deal to take over part
of the term of judge from
Poland who instead remained on
the court until his passing
with one year left in his
third nine-year
term. As
character witnesses Tomka has
many diplomats in the UN,
where he served from 1991 to
1997, including as Permanent
Representative. The
proposition that Tomka always
rules in favor of Colombia is
countered by his ruling
against Colombia's position
that Costa Rica should be able
to intervene in the case,
Territorial and Maritime
Dispute (Nicaragua v.
Colombia). All of this is duly
noted, for the
record."
In the UNSC
on November 11, France will be
a teller - their previous ICJ
deal:
"In the run up to
the election of six
International Criminal Court
judges set for New York in
December, France offered to
support a candidate found to
be unqualified if his country
would support the French
candidate Bruno Cathala, Inner
City Press has
learned.
There are 19 candidates for
the six ICC judge seats. They
were reviewed by the
Independent Panel on
International Criminal Court
Judicial Elections and four --
from Tunisia, Cyprus, Costa
Rica and Mexico -- were found
to be
"unqualified."
The Panel's members include
not only South African justice
and international prosecutor
Richard Goldstone, and ICTY
and US judge Patricia Wald but
also former top UN lawyer Hans
Corell.
Nevertheless, when one of the
"unqualified" candidates met
with France to try to make his
case, he tells Inner City
Press that he was surprised to
be offered a deal: that if his
country committed to vote for
the French candidate, he could
count on France's
vote. France
styles itself a champion of
international criminal justice
and accountability. But just
as it asserted itself to place
atop UN Peacekeeping" ...
Lacroix.
Chinese
Ambassador Zhang Jun, who
blocks Inner City Press on
Twitter, demands to know why
he has to leave the UNSC
chamber while waiting for UNGA
voting results (on his
candidate Xue, Hanqin).
St Vincent and
the Grenadines has a
shaky answer - and is
colluding in banning Inner
City Press from the UNSC,
unlike retirees and state
media. We'll have more on
this.
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