Argentine Judge elected by peers head of the International Criminal Court

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An Argentine has been elected by her peers to lead the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Judges of the ICC, sitting in a plenary session, elected Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi as president of the court for a three-year term with immediate effect, the organization said in a news release. Read full article

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gordo1
But. does Argentina recognise the ICJ? Then now is the time to take the matter of the Falklands/Malvinas to the ICJ for resolution!
Mar 13th, 2015 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
The ICC and the ICJ are diffent entities, yet both based in the Hague. The clue is in the name.
A bit like having a crimminal court (but for genocidal villians) and a civil court (for those claiming land/sovereign rights).
Mar 13th, 2015 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@1. But this is the ICC. Typical fudge from an argie. “the most important instrument of international justice to have been developed since 1945.” I would have thought that the ICJ IS a tad more important.

Incidentally, thinking about the ICJ makes me think of the C-24. Ever noticed how Britain and its territories always get handed the dirty end? Anyone with any intelligence whatsoever know that the Falkland Islands cannot belong to argieland. So what is the C-24 doing about the argies encroaching on the British Antarctic Territory? Why hasn't argieland ever been called to account for invading South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands? The latter even some years before the war. Why has the chairperson been from Ecuador for 3 consecutive years. As the C-24 has no mandate to determine sovereignty, why is argieland allowed to go and spout about it every year? Why doesn't the C-24 ever say what steps the Falklands and Britain have to take to get the Islands removed from their infamous 'list'? Aren't the Islands 'in association' with the UK? That's supposed to count. Would the C-24 like to insist on some stupid 'condition' that would result in another argie invasion? Removal of the British garrison? No problem. Can we have a US Task Force there?
Mar 13th, 2015 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Porto Margaret
This should be fun.

Which ninny of the Argentine regime is going to knock on her door first?

I expect the wooly brained one London : Alicia Castro.
Mar 13th, 2015 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
What a pity TDC does not have 15M people like this person to replace the 15M Peronistas that infest the place and need exterminating before anything positive will ever come out of the place.

Good luck to her.
Mar 13th, 2015 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
I'm sure she will be hounded by many an Argentine 'delegation', just like they got so over-excited' about an Argentine Pope.
Thought this would give them global influence...

Foolishly, they never really realise that once people gain such international positions, they are for the international community that they are called to represent.
Not for the backroom deals so common at home. The major problem for Argentine politicos is that they believe the rest of the world operates to their own low standards, hence Cristina 'demanding' (arf!) that Obama 'take control of his judiciary'...
That went well, didn't it?
;-)

PS: Any further news of Alicia Castro 'demands' that the BBC apologise etc?
That story has gone rather quiet... although Clarkson is still being rather 'loud', I heard somewhere...
Mar 14th, 2015 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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dsullivanboston
Great, at least she will know most defendants on a first name basis
Mar 14th, 2015 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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