Vietnam chairs periodical meeting of UNSC 's Informal Working Group on International Tribunals

Addressing the virtual meeting of UNSC's Informal Working Group on International Tribunals, Ambassador Quy thanked members' cooperation serving the working group’s operation in 2019, particularly reviewing the functioning of the international residual mechanism for criminal tribunals with the UNSC’s adoption of Resolution 2529.

As Chair of the group, Vietnam will push ahead with dialogues in the spirit of collaboration between the group and the President of the mechanism as well as between the Prosecutor and the Registrar of the mechanism in order to soon complete tasks assigned by the UNSC, he affirmed.

Head of the Vietnamese Mission to UN, Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy. (Photo: VNA)

After hearing reports by President Carmel Agius, Prosecutor Serge Brammertz and Registrar Tambadou Abubacarr of the mechanism, the working group discussed measures to boost the mechanism’s completion of tasks in the time to come, such as completing the trial process and arrest of hidden suspects, as well as ensuring detention conditions for prisoners and the health and safety of the mechanism's employees.

The Informal Working Group on International Tribunals was established in June 2000 to deal with a specific issue pertaining to the statute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (ICTY) and subsequently mandated to deal with other legal issues pertaining to ICTY as well as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 1994 (ICTR).

Apart from the working group, Vietnam is holding the Chairmanship of the UNSC’s South Sudan Sanctions Committee and the Lebanon Sanctions Committee.

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