Meanwhile, ICTR’s registrar, Adama Dieng told journalists in Arusha on Thursday that he would tackle the Tribunal’s problems in a new atmosphere of transparency, the independent Hirondelle news agency reported. “It is really my true commitment to ensure that my management philosophy is based on team work and meritocracy,” he said at his first press conference since his appointment in March. “And I am determined to advance the reform of the management culture in this Tribunal,” he said. Dieng said he had already began tackling problems such as screening of defence investigators and possible abuse of the legal aid system; recruitment practices; witness protection; enforcement of sentences; cooperation with member states; and extension of the ICTR’s “Outreach” programme in Rwanda. This includes plans for the UN radio in Rwanda, to bring the Tribunal’s activities to the “grassroots”, he said.
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