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UN General Assembly elects 11 ICTR judges

[Rwanda] International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) justices. UN
Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Extreme left, the late Laity Kama of Senegal
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    The UN General Assembly elected 11 permanent judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on 31 January, UN News reported. The judges, whose terms begin on 25 May, will serve for four years. UN News said on Monday that the judges had been elected in five separate ballots from a list of 22 during the General Assembly meeting in New York. Those elected on the first ballot were Serguei Aleckseievich Egorov (Russian Federation), Mehmet Güney (Turkey), Erik Møse (Norway), William Hussein Sekule (Tanzania), Andrésia Vaz (Senegal), Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca (Argentina) and Lloyd George Williams (Saint Kitts and Nevis). Jai Ram Reddy (Fiji), Arlette Ramaroson (Madagascar) and Mansoor Ahmad (Pakistan) were elected in the second ballot, and Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardana (Sri Lanka) on the fifth ballot. The elections began on 29 January, but that round was deemed "invalid" because a country behind in paying its UN dues had participated in the voting. Five of the judges are already serving on the ICTR. They are Møse, Sekule, Williams, Vaz and Ramaroson. The current ICTR president, South African Navanethem Pillay, did not seek re-election.

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