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

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the UN and chairman of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals, chaired a six-month periodical meeting of the group on December 11.
Vietnam chairs periodical meeting of UNSC’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals ảnh 1Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Mission to the UN (Photo: VNA)

New York (VNA) – Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, headof the Vietnamese Mission to the UN and chairman of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals, chaireda six-month periodical meeting of the group on December 11.

Addressing the virtual meeting, Quy thanked members' cooperation serving the working group’s operation in 2019,particularly reviewing thefunctioning of the international residual mechanism for criminal tribunals withthe UNSC’s adoption of Resolution 2529.

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

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

The Informal Working Group on International Tribunals wasestablished in June 2000 to deal with a specific issue pertaining to thestatute of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of PersonsResponsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law in theTerritory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (ICTY) and subsequently mandatedto deal with other legal issues pertaining to ICTY as well as the InternationalCriminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible forGenocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian LawCommitted in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible forGenocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of NeighbouringStates between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 1994 (ICTR).

Apart from the working group, Vietnam is holding theChairmanship of the UNSC’s South Sudan Sanctions Committee and the LebanonSanctions Committee./.
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