Cour internationale de Justice - Conseil de sécurité, 10262e séance Conseil de sécurité Date: 3 November 2026 Language: English Transcript: https://transcripts.un.org/fr/sc/10262?lang=en Transcripts available through this tool are created by using automatic speech recognition and are not official records nor official documents of the United Nations. Official records and official documents are available on the Official Document System of the United Nations. --- UNSC · President [0:00]: The 10262nd meeting of the Security Council is called to order. The provisional agenda for this meeting is: election of five members of the International Court of Justice, as in documents S/2026/524, S/2026/525, S/2026/525 Addendum 1, S/2026/525 Addendum 2, and S/2026/526. The agenda is adopted. In accordance with Article 11 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, The Council will now hold a second meeting and will proceed to a second ballot to elect one member of the International Court of Justice. May I take it that the Council is now ready to proceed with the election of one member of the International Court of Justice? It is so decided. Okay. I am informed that the General Assembly is ready to proceed with the voting process. So I ask the conference officer to distribute the ballots. Members of the Council should place an X in the box next to the name of the one candidate for whom they wish to vote. Members wishing to abstain should leave all boxes blank. I take it that all the members of the Council have now voted, and I ask the conference officer to collect the ballot papers. So all the ballot papers have been collected, and I should like to remind Council members that in accordance with established practice, the votes will not be counted until it has been verified that the ballot papers in the General Assembly have also been collected. The Council will remain in session pending the receipt of that information. Speaker 2 [9:47]: Yeah. UNSC · President [10:55]: I have now been informed that the ballot papers have been collected in the General Assembly. So the tellers will now begin the counting of the votes in the Security Council. As per practice, there will be two independent counts of the ballots, one by each teller. I should like to remind Council members that, in accordance with established practice, I shall wait for the General Assembly to complete its count before I announce the results of the voting in the Security Council. The Council will remain in session. Speaker 4 [12:49]: I think you're right. Thank you. So, so. UNSC · President [45:36]: All right, colleagues, we will continue. So the result of the voting is as follows. Number of ballot papers, 15. Number of invalid ballots, zero. Number of valid ballots, 15. Number of abstentions, zero. Required majority, eight. So number of votes obtained. Luzdel Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, zero. Charles Cherno Jalloh, six. Phoebe Okowa, four. Jinhyun Paik, two. Matheo Vazquez Bermudez, three. As no candidate has received the required majority of votes in the Security Council, in accordance with Article 11 of the Statute of the Court, the Council will proceed to a third ballot to elect one member of the International Court of Justice. I wish to inform the Members that the voting in the General Assembly was also inconclusive and that the Assembly will proceed to a third ballot to elect one member of the International Court of Justice. And I would like to remind the Members that each Member may vote for not more than one candidate. All candidates, except for those who have already received the required majority in the first ballot, are eligible for voting, and any ballot paper containing votes for more than one candidate will be invalid. A blank ballot paper will be considered an abstention. If a ballot paper contains any notation other than the vote in favor of an eligible candidate, those notations will be disregarded. I take that Council is now ready to proceed with the election of one member of the International Court of Justice. All right, I will inform you when the General Assembly is ready to start. To colleagues, I have been informed by the President of the General Assembly of the withdrawal of the candidature of Charles Tchanor Jallow. Therefore, Charles Tchanor Jallow is no longer a candidate in this election, and his name will not appear on the ballot paper. Now, new ballot papers are being prepared and will be distributed shortly. So I will inform you when the General Assembly is ready to proceed and kindly ask members to wait until that happens. So now I'm informed that the General Assembly is ready to proceed with the voting process, and I'll ask the conference officer to distribute the ballots. And I should remind members of the Council that the members of the Council should place an X in the box next to the name of the candidate for whom they wish to vote. Speaker 6 [1:09:12]: Thank you. UNSC · President [1:09:58]: I take it that all members of the Council have voted now and kindly ask the conference officer to collect the ballot papers. All the ballot papers have been collected, and I should like to remind Council members that in accordance with the established practice, the votes will not be counted until it has been verified that the ballot papers in the General Assembly have also been collected. The Council will remain in session pending the receipt of that information. Speaker 8 [1:15:48]: Yep. Thank you. Thank you. And yesterday evening, she just continued to express her The whole evening. This is Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, next slide. Okay. Please. So now he's under huge pressure, because obviously he's a older brother, so he cannot be. It's very. Makes it a lot of difference. Oh my God. You can go and have your candidates selected, and also have lunch. It's an escalator. Shall I go? UNSC · President [1:46:29]: Colleagues, I have been informed by the President of the General Assembly that the following two candidates have withdrawn while the ballots were being distributed in the Security Council, but before they were distributed in the General Assembly: Marcelo Vázquez Bermúdez and Jin Hyun Pyke. Normally, candidates cannot withdraw once the voting process has begun. However, while the voting process had begun in the Security Council, the voting process had not begun in the General Assembly. As such, the candidates were withdrawn in the General Assembly in accordance with established practice. As the present election should be held in the General Assembly and the Security Council on the basis of the same candidates on the ballot, The Security Council will have to hold its voting on the same candidates as in the General Assembly. New ballots for the third round have therefore been prepared with the following two names: Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, Peru, and Phoebe Okoa, Kenya. I ask the conference officer to distribute them now. The third-round ballots cast earlier in the Security Council will be destroyed. We wait for a second, please. Yes, please hold the ballots and colleagues, stay put. All right, I would like to ask the conference officer to distribute the ballots now, please. And members of the Council should place an X in the box next to the name of the candidate of whom they wish to vote. I take it that all the members of the Council have voted, and I would kindly ask the conference officer to collect the ballot papers. Now all the ballot papers have been collected, and I should like to remind Council members that in accordance with the established practice, the votes will not be counted until it has been verified that the ballot papers in the General Assembly have also been collected, and the Council will remain in session pending the receipt of that information. Thank you. Speaker 10 [1:57:18]: That's not a picture. Mm. UNSC · President [2:00:23]: I have now been informed that the ballot papers have been collected in the General Assembly, so the tellers will now begin counting of the votes in the Security Council. And as per practice, there will be two independent counts of the ballots, one by each teller. And I should like to remind Council members that in accordance with established practice, I shall wait for the General Assembly to complete its count before I announce the results of the voting in the Security Council, and the Council will remain in session. Speaker 12 [2:05:49]: You also decided to scam us. Yeah, yeah. I can open it. Thank you. Oh, okay. Thank you. Ah, yes. And. Yes. UNSC · UNSC · President [2:19:03]: Okay, so the result of the voting is as follows. Number of ballot papers, 15. Number of invalid ballots, zero. Number of valid ballots, 15. Number of abstentions, two. Required majority, eight. So, the number of votes obtained: Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza, zero; Phoebe Okowa, 13. Accordingly, the candidate, phoebe Okowa, received the required majority of votes in the Security Council. I have communicated the result of the vote to the President of the General Assembly in writing, and I have communicated the result of the vote to the... Yeah, no, that's Yes, I did it once. And I should like to inform the members of the Council that I have received from the President of the General Assembly the following letter, and I quote: “I have the honour to inform you that at the 36th plenary meeting of General Assembly held today for the purpose of electing the members of the International Court of Justice, Phoebe Okowa, Kenya, obtained an absolute majority of votes in the General Assembly." End of quote. As both the Security Council and the General Assembly have agreed on the same candidate, the distinguished jurist Phoebe Okowa from Kenya has been elected member of the International Court of Justice for a term of office of nine years, beginning on 6 February 2027. I should like to congratulate her and wish her every success in the high office to which she has been elected. And on behalf of the Council, I would like to thank the tellers for their assistance in the conduct of the elections. The Security Council has thus concluded its consideration of the item on its agenda, and the meeting is adjourned.