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The UN Security Council on Thursday appointed Hassan Bubacar Jallow from The Gambia as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha, Tanzania.
Jallow, who is currently permanent judge at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, will succeed Carla Del Ponte from Switzerland, whose mandate expires on 14 September 2003. For her part, Del Ponte was appointed as prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The appointment of the two prosecutors for a four-year mandate each will take effect on 15 September 2003.
Jallow served as Gambia's attorney general and justice minister from 1984 to 1994, and later as a judge of The Gambia's Supreme Court. In 1998, he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to serve as an international legal expert and to conduct an evaluation of the ICTR and the ICTY. He has also served as a legal expert for the Organisation of African Unity and the Commonwealth, and was involved in the drafting of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, which was adopted in 1980.
On 28 August, the Security Council by its Resolution 1503 amended Article 15 of the Statute of the ICTR so that as of 15 September 2003 the court will have its own prosecutor.
Del Ponte had been prosecutor of the ICTR and ICTY since her appointment by the Security Council in September 1999, when she succeeded the former prosecutor of the UN tribunals, Louise Arbour of Canada.
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