[legal-professionals] 14 judges elected to UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia

22 November 2004 ­ After seven rounds of voting, the General Assembly has
elected 14 judges to serve on the United Nations war crimes tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia through 2009.

Among the 13 judges on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia (ICTY) winning re-election last Friday were the court's
President, Theodor Meron of the United States, and its Vice-President,
Fausto Pocar of Italy.

Presiding Judges Patrick Lipton Robinson of Jamaica, Carmel A. Agius of
Malta and Liu Daqun of China were also given new four-year terms, which
will begin on 17 November 2005 and expire in 2009.

The other re-elected judges were Jean-Claude Antonetti of France, Iain
Bonomy of the United Kingdom, O-gon Kwon of the Republic of Korea,
Alphonsus Martinus Maria Orie of the Netherlands, Kevin Horace Parker of
Australia, Wolfgang Schomburg of Germany, Mohamed Shahabuddeen of Guyana
and Christine Van den Wyngaert of Belgium, who had been serving as an ad
litem judge.

Bakone Melema Moloto of South Africa was the only new judge elected to the
UN court.

The Tribunal was established by the Security Council in early 1993 to
prosecute those responsible for serious violations of international
humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since
1991. It was the first world court established by the UN for the
prosecution of war crimes.

UN News Service