India goes all out to get Dalveer Bhandari elected to ICJ

The UK is looking to invoke a mechanism of GA and Security Council Joint Conference, which has never been used in the history of ICJ, to choose the judge and, in the process, invalidate popular support for Bhandari. The UK's candidate Christopher Greenwood holds on to a slender lead in the 15-member Council and, under the present rules, this is enough to offset the nearly two-thirds support for Bhandari in the GA. For India, the election has now reached a tipping point and, as India's permanent representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin said on Friday, the election was no longer about an individual.