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RTI ACT 2005
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Security Council
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General Assembly
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General Assembly upon recommendation of the Security Council
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General Assembly and the Security Council independently of one another
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Detailed explanation-1: -The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. These organs vote simultaneously but separately. In order to be elected, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of the votes in both bodies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Court’s justices are elected by obtaining an absolute majority of votes in both the Assembly and the Council, without regard to their nationality, from among persons of high moral character worldwide.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Court is composed of 15 judges, who are elected for terms of office of nine years by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. It is assisted by a Registry, its administrative organ.
Detailed explanation-4: -The ICJ was established in 1945 by the same constitutive instrument as the Security Council, the UN Charter, to act as the principal judicial organ of the UN. The Statute of the Court is annexed to the Charter itself, meaning that all UN member states are automatically parties to the Statute.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Supreme Court of India comprises the Chief Justice and not more than 33 other Judges appointed by the President of India.