UN Secretary-General reappoints Judge Carmel Agius as Mechanism President and renews terms of Mechanism Judges

Mechanism
Press release
Arusha, The Hague
President Carmel Agius
President Carmel Agius

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Judge Carmel Agius to a second term of office as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), with effect from 1 July 2020 until 30 June 2022.

President Agius has served as Mechanism President since 19 January 2019, having been a Judge of the Mechanism since it commenced operating in 2012. He was also a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for sixteen years from 2001, serving as its Vice-President from November 2011 to November 2015, as well as its final President from November 2015 until December 2017. In addition, he served as a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2009 until its closure in 2015.

The Secretary-General has also reappointed the other 24 Judges on the judicial roster of the Mechanism for a term of two years, from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2022.

President Agius’ Biographical Note
Mechanism Judges

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The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) was established by UN Security Council Resolution 1966 (2010) to complete the remaining work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after the completion of their respective mandates. The Mechanism has two branches, one in Arusha, Tanzania, and one in The Hague, Netherlands.