UK threatens to invoke unprecedented mechanism to deny India ICJ seat

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  • UK trying to to stall surge in support for India's candidate for the ICJ, Dalveer Bhandari
  • UK threatening to use its power as a permanent member of UNSC to end the process of voting
  • Bhandari enjoys overwhelming support in GA with near 2/3rd majority, well ahead of UK's Christopher Greenwood

Dalveer Bhandari (File photo)
India and UK are headed for what might turn out to be the worst diplomatic showdown between the two nations in recent times. In a brazen attempt to stall the surge in support for India's candidate for the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Dalveer Bhandari, at the last round of voting at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UK is threatening to use its power as the permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to end the process of voting.

At an informal discussions of Security Council, the UK is learnt to have stated that it is considering stalling further voting at the UN after a single round of balloting on Monday.

It has instead proposed an arcane mechanism of Joint Conference, comprising 3 members each from GA and SC, as a substitute to continued voting. What has angered India, which is actively working to thwart Britain's move, is that this mechanism has never been used earlier in the entire history of ICJ to break a deadlock in appointment of judges.

This proposal that UK threatens to initiate in the SC, as support for its candidate Christopher Greenwood drops sharply at balloting in the GA, is attracting considerable criticism from across a broad spectrum of countries. As previous rounds of voting have shown, Bhandari enjoys overwhelming support of GA with near 2/3rd majority (121 countries favored him over Britain's candidate) but Greenwood has managed to negate it with a slender lead in the 15-member SC with help from the permanent members of the Council. A candidate needs majority in both GA and SC to win.

There have been many such deadlocks in the past too in election of ICJ judges, most recently in 2014 and 2011, but these were always resolved by more rounds of voting. UK though is now trying to duck voting, saying that just one more vote on Monday is enough before forming a joint conference, an untried mechanism that may take weeks to set up and months to yield any result.

A senior Indian official termed UK tactics to try and "steal the election outcome" as akin to those of the robber baron Robert Clive and added, tongue in cheek, that the New India was no Siraj ud Daulah, the last nawab of Bengal who was defeated by Clive.

The Indian diplomatic offensive at the UN has succeeded in stringing together an impressive coalition of countries of Africa, Asia-Pacific and also Latin America. According to Indian officials, many former British colonies have joined India against their former colonial master.

The election which started off as an effort to elect an individual judge to the ICJ, in fact, now has broader overtones as it has pitched a declining UK and a rising India in a high-voltage diplomatic battle.

Many other GA members too have been taken aback by UK's threat to seek a joint conference as there exists an unequivocal legal opinion provided in the 1984 UN Juridical Yearbook that argues against resorting to that option. Para 21 of the Yearbook clearly says that should a deadlock occur, a joint conference should not be automatically resorted to. "It seems more practical that the electoral organs should proceed to further meeting," it says.
Indian officials feel that UK's "undemocratic tactics" may impact Britain's standing in the Commonwealth, something that UK will need to factor in as it prepares to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in 2018.
In all previous cases of a deadlock, balloting took place in many more rounds than what has been completed this time. And on each such occasion, the candidate who was consistently leading in the GA was ultimately elected.
 

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UK and all permanent UNSC members (excluding Russia) can suck my dick. UNSC needs to be dissolved rather than reformed. These pricks (past superpowers) would not let their false superiority complex be challenged. World order has changed and puny countries like UK and France( who are nothing more than US puppet anyway) do not deserve to enjoy supreme rights in the new world order.

India should lead the effort and make case for a setting up new International Body where there may/may not be some major/permanent members but no single nation would have veto power. If not, we should go ahead and boycott these hoax International organisation and setup our own regional/continental/international organisation pursuading our non aligned partners and other friendly nations (Russia, Japan, China etc) to join it. All these old pussy powers will eventually admit their true position in 21st century and join the new body as subordinate nation.
 

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I don't know why on Earth we are still in list of common wealth nations?
 

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It's time UK gets a taste of it's own medicine ... hence it's time for India to set the "Vilayat" straight by
1.) Providing Asylum to Julian Assange TIT FOR TAT...viz, Mallya, Nadeem and Many more
2.) Recognizing Scotland As a separate nation and offering to open an Embassy there. All Scottish and Northern Irish should should only get stapled Indian visas.
3.) Get out of Commonwealth
 
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It's time UK gets a taste of it's own medicine ... hence it's time for India to set the "Vilayat" straight by
1.) Providing Asylum for Julian Assange TIT FOR TAT...viz, Mallya, Nadeem and Many more
2.) Recognizing Scotland As a separate nation and offering to open an Embassy there. All Scottish should should get stapled indian visas.
3.) Get out of Commonwealth
Not the right time for such methods....we must become 4-5 times bigger economy than all countries excluding USA,China before we start pushing our way around on a global scale.
 

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Not the right time for such methods....we must become 4-5 times bigger economy than all countries excluding USA,China before we start pushing our way around on a global scale.
Sorry mate, but you must realize that most of the problems created for us are a result of fAckups by zslamic-cock-Su****s of Londonistan and mallikaye Burtania victoria-bint-halala. I would go futher and suggest a COLD/HOT EXTRACTION of sorts of julian assange right under their noses.
 
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What is the significance of icj to India??
Concentrate on growth, these things will come.
Little island UK is on its way out, so they're throwing some tantrums..
Winning is a habit, if you can not win league match you won't win world cup either.

No chance should be left alone. India has let so many things go away for some bigger things that never came or happened to us.
 

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Winning is a habit, if you can not win league match you won't win world cup either.

No chance should be left alone. India has let so many things go away for some bigger things that never came or happened to us.
Maybe.
But we see it more as chess rather than football.
Feign weakness until you are strong enough to strike and the profit is worth the effort until then do not show your cards lest the enemy learns you.
 

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Britain is a sunset power fast disappearing below the horizon whereas India is a rising power. The Brits should be kicked out of the UNSC and India should take its rightful place on the high table.
 

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True and I am not sure why that useless commonwealth still exists? India should have got out in the 1950's.
India can still get out now. Wonder why successive governments have chosen not to do so.

The only tangible that I can think of is that Commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote in UK elections.
India has already given a ultimatum on this.. they are planning to boycott next years commonwealth meet.

"Indian officials feel that UK's "undemocratic tactics" may impact Britain's standing in the Commonwealth, something that UK will need to factor in as it prepares to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in 2018."
 

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while I am somewhat of an Anglophile I think that this can work to India's advantage and if India loses this India should Just walk out of the useless albatross called the UNO and many esteemed members like @Trinetra have mentioned terminate our Commonwealth membership forthwith
 

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