THE QUESTION OF "MICRO-STATES"
Decision At its 1506th meeting, on 29 August 1969, the Council decided to establish a committee of experts, consisting of all members of the Security Council, to study the question.

THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

A. Election of Members of the Court by the Security Council and the General Assembly-1°

Decision
On 27 October 1969, the Security Council, at its 1515th meeting, and the General Assembly, at its 1790th meeting, elected five members of the International Court of Justice to fill the vacancies occurring on the expiration of the terms of office of the following judges:
Mr. V. M. Koretsky (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics);
30 Resolutions or decisions on this question were also adopted by the Council in 1946, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1965 and 1966.

Mr. Kotaro Tanaka (Japan); Mr. Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero (Peru); Mr. Philip C. Jessup (United States of America); Mr. Gaetano Morelli (Italy).
The following were elected:
Mr. Hardy C. Dillard (United States of America);
Mr. Louis Ignacio-Pinto (Dahomey);
Mr. Federico de Castro (Spain); Mr. P. D. Morozov (Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics);
Mr. Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga (Uruguay).

B. Participation of States parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice but not Members of the United Nations in amendments to the Statute

Resolution 272 (1969)
of 23 October 1969

parties to the Statute, but are not Members of the
United Nations, in the procedure for effecting amendments to the Statute,

The Security Council,
Noting that the General Assembly has included in the agenda of its twenty-fourth session an item relating to the amendment of the Statute of the International Court of Justice,
Recalling that, under Article 69 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the Security Council may recommend to the General Assembly for adoption provisions concerning the participation of States which are

Recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following provisions concerning such participation:
(a) A State which is a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, but is not a Member of the United Nations, may participate in the General Assembly in regard to amendments to the Statute in the same manner as the Members of the United Nations;

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(b) Amendments to the Statute of the International
Court of J usticc shall come into force for all States which are parties to the Statute when they have been adopted by a vote of two thirds of the States which arc parties to the Statute and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of t;1c States which are parties to the Statute and in ac-

cordance with the provisions of Article 69 of the Statute and Article 108 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Adopted at the 1514th meeting.31
:n Adopted without vote.

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