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


Arusha, The Hague, 30 June 2020 – 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.

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.

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