Today, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”) donated a Police Post to the Arusha Regional Police at the Ngorbob Village, in the Kisongo area of Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania. The hand-over ceremony was held in the presence of the Arusha Regional Police Commander, Mr. Justine Majura Masejo, and a representative of the Arumeru District Commissioner, Mr. Hudhaifa Kassim Rashid.
Today, His Excellency Mr. Wiebe de Boer, Ambassador of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the United Republic of Tanzania, paid a courtesy visit to the Arusha branch of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”).
Mechanism Prosecutor Serge Brammertz is on an official visit to Kigali from 14 to 18 February 2022.
The Prosecutor is scheduled to meet with key Government officials, including Dr Emmanuel Ugirashebuja, the Minister of Justice, Mr. Aimable Havugiyaremye, the Prosecutor General and CG Dan Munyuza, Inspector General of Police.
The Prosecutor will also meet with leaders of victims associations of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide in the Ibuka office. Additionally, the Prosecutor will meet with His Eminence, Antoine Cardinal Kambanda, Archbishop of Kigali.
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.
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.
