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DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 8 November 1995

8 November 1995


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DH/2018


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 8 November 1995

19951108 * United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) makes substantial progress towards mandate, Secretary-General reports.

* General Assembly elects five non-permanent members of Security Council.

* Secretary-General begins visits to Poland and France.

SC/6121

SECURITY COUNCIL SETS 28 FEBRUARY 1996 DATE TO ELECT NEW INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE MEMBER

The Security Council this afternoon decided that the election to fill the vacancy on the International Court of Justice will be held on 28 February 1996.

By adopting without a vote resolution 1018 (1995), in accordance with Article 14 of the Statute of the Court, the Security Council set the date for its simultaneous meeting with the General Assembly to elect the new member of the Court, who will serve out the remainder of the nine-year term of Judge Andres Aguilar Mawdsley (Venezuela), until 5 February 2000. Judge Mawdsley died on 24 October.