ICTR elects new president and vice-president

The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday appointed former ICTR vice-president Judge Erik Mose of Norway as its new president. Judge Andresia Vaz of Senegal was elected vice-president, the ICTR said. According to a statement issued by the tribunal, Mose and Vaz were elected during the 13th ICTR session in Arusha, northern Tanzania. Mose, who has been vice-president since 1999, takes over from Judge Navanethem Pillay of South Africa. Vaz was appointed an ICTR judge in 2001. The tribunal said three of four other judges were sworn in ahead of Monday's plenary session - Ines Monica Weinberg de Roca from Argentina, Jai Ram Reddy of Fiji and Sergei Aleckseievich Egorov from Russia. The tribunal was set up in 1995 to try Rwandans suspected of organising and taking part in the 1994 genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed.