Amsterdam (TDI): The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, said on Monday that Judge Yuji Iwasawa had been elected as its new president to complete ex-president Nawaf Salam’s term that ends on February 5, 2027.
Salam quit the office in January to become Lebanon’s prime minister.
Iwasawa, who is Japanese, has been a member of the International Court of Justice since 2018 and before that served as a professor of international law at the University of Tokyo and chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
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The ICJ, the UN’s highest court and based in The Hague, was established in 1945 to resolve disputes between countries.
It recently gained world attention in the ongoing case surrounding genocide allegations against Israel — which it has denied — in the Gaza war.
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In July, the court ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and its settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war were illegal and that it must withdraw as soon as possible.
