7348th Meeting on ICTY and ICTR

In two separate resolutions this afternoon, the Security Council decided to extend the term of office of judges of the International Tribunals handling serious crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the early 1990s, while requesting both courts to complete their work as expeditiously as possible.

By a vote of 14 votes in favour with 1 abstention (Russian Federation), the Council adopted resolution 2193 (2014), which extended the following permanent judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, who are members of the Trial Chambers and the Appeals Chamber, until 31 December 2015, or until the completion of the case which they were assigned, if sooner: Koffi Kumelio A. Afande (Togo), Carmel Agius (Malta), Liu Daqun (China), Theodor Meron (United States), Fausto Pocar (Italy), Jean-Claude Antonetti (France), O-Gon Kwon (Republic of Korea), Burton Hall (Bahamas), Howard Morrison (United Kingdom), Guy Delvoie (Belgium), Christoph Flügge (Germany), Alphons Orie (Netherlands), Bakone Justice Moloto (South Africa), Melville Baird (Trinidad and Tobago), Flavia Lattanzi (Italy), and Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua (Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Acting on the International Tribunal for Rwanda through the unanimous adoption of resolution 2194 (2014), the Council decided to extend the terms of office of Mehmet Guney of Turkey and William H. Sekule of the United Republic of Tanzania, members of the Appeals Court and permanent judges of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, until 31 July 2015 or until the completion of the cases to which they are or would be assigned, if sooner.

Also by the resolution, the Council decided to extend the terms of the following permanent justices of the Tribunal who are members of the Appeals Chamber until 31 December 2015 or until completion of their cases: Mandiaye Niang of Senegal, Khalida Rachid Khan of Pakistan, Arlette Ramaroson of Madagascar and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov of the Russian Federation.

By other terms, the Council decided to extend the term of office of Vagn Joensen, of Denmark, until 31 December 2015, so he could continue to perform his functions as a trial judge and President of the International Tribunal. It also decided to reappoint Hassan Bubacar Jallow as Prosecutor of the International Tribunal with effect from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015, a term subject to earlier termination upon the Tribunal’s completion of work.

The meeting began at 3:15 p.m. and ended at 3:17 p.m.