UN tribunal for Rwanda requests more judges to tackle heavy caseload
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has asked the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly for a pool of ad litem - or short-term - judges to help accelerate its work.
The Tribunal is seeking 18 judges to handle work both in trials and pre-trial proceedings, according to a letter released today at UN Headquarters in New York, The by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, which forwards the request by the ICTR President, Judge Navanethem Pillay, notes that preliminary estimated cost of setting up the short-term judges for the 2002-2003 biennium would be about $23.6 million.
Such a pool of ad litem judges has already been set up for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.