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-3° Decision On 27 October 1969, the Security Council, at its 1515th meeting, and the General Assembly, at its 1 790th meeting, elected five members of the Interna­ tional 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 Re­ publics); 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 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 pro­ visions concerning the participation of States which are 
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