Judge Agius Carmel speaks during a meeting with the Minister for Justice Johnston Busingye in Kigali earlier this year. |
Kigali, RWANDA
The President of the International Residual Mechanism for
Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, Monday announced that
the court is expected to wrap up its judicial work by the end of 2020.
Judge Agius said this as he met with the
President of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, Amb. Tijjani
Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria, at UN Headquarters in New York.
Judge Agius briefed the latter on the
current caseload and judicial developments at both branches of the Mechanism.
“President Agius indicated that it is expected
that nearly all of the existing judicial work will be concluded by the end of
2020, but stressed that in order to do so the Mechanism will need to receive
the necessary resources,” reads part of a statement by the Mechanism.
A few years ago, the Mechanism took over from
the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) established by the UN to
try masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
The Mechanism took over from both the former
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) – which closed shop in
December 2015 – and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY), which closed in 2017.
Judge Agius also emphasized that UN member
states’ cooperation was essential to the fulfillment of the Mechanism’s
mandate, and in particular to the apprehension of the remaining eight
Rwandan Genocide fugitives indicted by the UN court.
Judge Agius subsequently presented an overview
of the Mechanism’s 2020 Budget requirements and also highlighted the importance
of the relationship between the Mechanism and the General Assembly.
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