International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals - Security Council, 10170th meeting

Security Council weighs future of International Criminal Tribunals Mechanism amid competing calls for its closure, continued support to national authorities.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:34:27
• Production Date: 12 June 2026
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: SERGE BRAMMERTZ; GRACIELA SUSANA GATTI SANTANA
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA - ICTR; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA - ICTY; UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL RESIDUAL MECHANISM FOR CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS - IRMCT
• Subject Topical: GENOCIDE; INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS; INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL; WAR CRIMES; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; ARCHIVES
• Geographic Subject: RWANDA
• MAMS Id: 3588563
• Parent Id: 3587477
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10170 IRMCT 12 JUN 2026 AM

Description

Amid its review of the entity tasked with concluding the functions of two landmark international criminal courts, speakers in the Security Council today alternately highlighted the need to safeguard the legacy at stake and finalize the work of a mechanism always envisioned as temporary.

The Council established the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in 1994 and 1993, respectively, to prosecute those responsible for the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in the former and for war crimes during the 1990s in the latter. The Council established the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in 2010 to assist these Tribunals in completing their mandates. While the Tribunals closed in 2015 and 2017, respectively, the Mechanism remains while the Council decides how best to conclude its work.

• Briefer: Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
• Briefer: Mr. Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
• Statements: All Council members
• Statement: His Excellency Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Rwanda
• Statements: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Republic of Tanzania, Croatia
• Further statement: Serbia

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S/PV.10170