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| Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras |
18 January 2012
UN News Centre
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated David Scheffer of the United States as the Special Expert to advise on the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT), it was announced today.
“Mr. Scheffer is very well qualified to provide expert advice on UNAKRT during this critical phase for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts Cambodia (ECCC),” stated the announcement.
The ECCC, set up under an agreement signed in 2003 by the UN and the Government, is tasked with trying those deemed most responsible for crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979 during which as many as two million people are thought to have died.
Mr. Scheffer, whose designation is for an initial period of six months, replaces Clint Williamson, whose term of office expired on 30 September 2011.
The new Special Expert was involved in the establishment of the ECCC, the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). He served as the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues from 1997 to 2001.
It was also announced today that Mr. Ban has appointed John Hocking of Australia as the Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
Mr. Hocking has been serving as the Registrar of the ICTY, which is based in The Hague, since May 2009.
He will continue in that position while working as the Registrar of the Residual Mechanism, which was established by Security Council to carry out a number of essential functions of the ICTY and the ICTR after the closure of the Tribunals.
The Residual Mechanism will have two branches, in Arusha – where the ICTR is based – and in The Hague, which will commence functioning on 1 July 2012 and 1 July 2013, respectively.
“As its first Registrar, Mr. Hocking will be responsible for the effective commencement of the functions of the Residual Mechanism,” stated the announcement.
4 comments:
I feel sorry for UN who has been under both prossures from yuon Hanoi and US in this ECCC in Cambodia.
ECCC under politic VIET USA BUT THE VIET A KILLER KHMERS PEOPLE .UN MUSH MORE COURT TO AUSTRALIA COUNTRY
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Ban Ki-moon is the stooge of the west. How he got to be re-elected to the second term is beyond surprise. He's a disgrace to Asian especially to South Korean of his incompetent and a puppet to the west on regarding to current affairs in the mid-east. He can't speak English vivid enough to understand. The man is far from qualify as a secretary of any Korean corporation, let alone the UN's. Mr. KOFI A. ANNAN is gutsy and well-respected UN's secretary of state that stood tall against the W.Bush's war on Iraq. Moon, you are disgrace to Asian people. Step down!!!
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