Mr. Abubacarr Tambadou, Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), on 3 February 2022 delivered a lecture entitled “The Role and Functions of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals”, opening a new semester of the third cycle of the Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme), “International Law and Facts Established before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)”.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, has appointed Judge Margaret Anne McAuliffe deGuzman of the United States of America to the roster of Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), effective 22 December 2021.

Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), today addressed the United Nations Security Council.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, today presented the Mechanism’s nineteenth progress report to the United Nations Security Council.

On 30 November 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, H.E. Nikola Selaković, visited the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and held meetings with President Carmel Agius and Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, where topics of mutual interest were discussed.

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 Carmel Agius, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), will conduct an official visit to Zagreb, Croatia over three days from 22 to 24 November 2021.

Mechanism Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will be on an official visit to Kigali from 11 to 17 November 2021. This visit constitutes part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and follows the Prosecutor’s recent official visits to Harare, Zimbabwe and Pretoria, South Africa.

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.

Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) will be on official visit to Pretoria from 8 to 9 November 2021, as part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).