President Agius concludes official visit to the Republic of Croatia

President Carmel Agius
President Carmel Agius

Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), yesterday concluded a three-day official visit to Zagreb, Croatia.

During the visit, President Agius met with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, Minister of Justice and Public Administration Ivan Malenica, and State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs Andreja Metelko-Zgombić. The Croatian Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dubravka Plejić Marković, was also in attendance.

Judge Theodor Meron steps down from Judicial Roster of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Judge Theodor Meron
Judge Theodor Meron

Judge Theodor Meron has informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations, through President Carmel Agius, of his intention to resign from the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) as of 17 November 2021, which marks two decades from the commencement of his first term as a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

From 2001, Judge Meron served on the Appeals Chamber of both the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) until the closure of these Tribunals.

President Agius launches third cycle of Mechanism’s Inter-University Video Lecture Programme

Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), today launched the third cycle of the Mechanism’s Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme) with a lecture on the creation and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). For the first time, postgraduate students from 12 universities across the region of the former Yugoslavia took part in the online event.
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President Agius meets with President of the United Nations General Assembly

Judge Carmel Agius and Ambassador Abdulla Shahid
Judge Carmel Agius and Ambassador Abdulla Shahid

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, met today with the President of the Seventy-Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, His Excellency Ambassador Abdulla Shahid of the Republic of Maldives, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.