>From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: FWD:RWANDA: Jallow confirmed as ICTR prosecutor, replacing Del Ponte >Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:00:23 -0500 > >RWANDA: Jallow confirmed as ICTR prosecutor, replacing Del Ponte >IRINnews Africa, Fri 5 Sep 2003 > > >NAIROBI, - The UN Security Council on Thursday appointed Hassan Bubacar >Jallow from The Gambia as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal >for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha, Tanzania. > >Jallow, who is currently permanent judge at the Special Court for Sierra >Leone, will succeed Carla Del Ponte from Switzerland, whose mandate expires >on 14 September 2003. For her part, Del Ponte was appointed as prosecutor >for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). > >The appointment of the two prosecutors for a four-year mandate each will >take effect on 15 September 2003. > >Jallow served as Gambia's attorney general and justice minister from 1984 >to 1994, and later as a judge of The Gambia's Supreme Court. In 1998, he >was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve as an >international legal expert and to conduct an evaluation of the ICTR and the >ICTY. He has also served as a legal expert for the Organisation of African >Unity and the Commonwealth, and was involved in the drafting of the African >Charter on Human and People's Rights, which was adopted in 1980. > >On 28 August, the Security Council by its Resolution 1503 amended Article >15 of the Statute of the ICTR so that as of 15 September 2003 the court >will have its own prosecutor. > >Del Ponte had been prosecutor of the ICTR and ICTY since her appointment by >the Security Council in September 1999, when she succeeded the former >prosecutor of the UN tribunals, Louise Arbour of Canada. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >The material contained in this article is from IRIN, a UN humanitarian >information unit, but may not necessarily reflect the views of the United >Nations or its agencies. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post any item >on this site, please retain this credit and disclaimer. Quotations or >extracts should include attribution to the original sources. All graphics >and Images on this site may not be re-produced without the express >permission of the original owner. >All materials copyright © UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian >Affairs 2003 > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~