The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today presented the Mechanism’s twenty-first progress report to the United Nations Security Council (Council) in New York. This was President Gatti Santana’s first address to the Council since she assumed office on 1 July 2022.

From Monday, 28 November to Wednesday, 30 November 2022, the Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) will be holding an in-person Plenary Session at the Seat of the Mechanism in The Hague, Netherlands. This is the Mechanism’s third in-person Plenary Session, with the last one conducted in 2019 at the Arusha branch.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today presented the Mechanism’s tenth Annual Report to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. This was President Gatti Santana’s first address to the Assembly since she assumed office on 1 July 2022.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today met with the President of the 77^th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, His Excellency Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi of Hungary, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Abubacarr M. Tambadou, today welcomed to the Arusha branch a delegation headed by the Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Legal Affairs for the United Republic of Tanzania, the Hon. Dr. Damas D. Ndumbaro (MP). Minister Ndumbaro was joined by Hon. Geophrey Mzengo Pinda (MP) Deputy Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Legal Affairs, Ms. Mary G. Makondo, Permanent Secretary, Dr. Khatibu M. Kazungu, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ms.

Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Serge Brammertz is visiting Belgrade, Serbia, from 10 to 12 October 2022 to participate in the Regional Conference of War Crimes Prosecutors, focused on cooperation in processing war crimes justice, organized by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office and supported by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Germany and the EU.

Today, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) presented its opening statement in the trial of Félicien Kabuga. Kabuga is on trial for the crimes of genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and the crimes against humanity of extermination, murder and persecution, all committed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Reflecting on the commencement of this trial, IRMCT Prosecutor Serge Brammertz provided the following public statement:

The accreditation procedure is now open for those wishing to attend the Opening Statements and the commencement of the presentation of evidence in the case of Prosecutor v. Félicien Kabuga at the premises of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) in The Hague.

The accreditation procedure is now open for those wishing to attend broadcasts at the Arusha branch of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) of the Opening Statements and the commencement of the presentation of evidence in the case of Prosecutor v. Félicien Kabuga.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today welcomed the Mayor of The Hague, Mr. Jan van Zanen, to the Mechanism’s Hague branch. In hosting Mayor van Zanen, President Gatti Santana was joined by the Mechanism’s long-serving Judge from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Judge Alphons Orie.