United Nations Security Council Resolution 1915

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1915, adopted unanimously on March 18, 2010, after recalling resolutions 827

United Nations Security Council Resolution 827

United Nations Security Council Resolution 827, adopted unanimously on May 25, 1993, after reaffirming Resolution 713 and all subsequent resolutions on the topic of the former Yugoslavia, approved report S/25704 of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, with the Statute of the International...

(1993), 1581

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1581

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1581, adopted unanimously on January 18, 2005, after recalling resolutions 1503 and 1534 , the Council approved the extension of the terms of office of seven short-term judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in order to...

(2005), 1597

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1597

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1597, adopted unanimously on April 20, 2005, after recalling resolutions 827 , 1166 , 1329 , 1411 , 1431 , 1481 , 1503 and 1534 , the Council amended the statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in order to allow temporary...

(2005), 1613

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1613

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1613, adopted unanimously on July 26, 2005, after recalling resolutions 827 , 1166 , 1329 , 1411 , 1431 , 1481 , 1503 , 1534 and 1597 , the Council forwarded a list of nominees for temporary judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

(2005), 1629

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1629

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1629, adopted unanimously on September 30, 2005, after considering the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , the Council decided that Judge Christine Van Den Wyngaert could participate in the Mile Mrkšić case, before...

(2005), 1660

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1660

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1660, adopted unanimously on February 28, 2006, after recalling resolutions 827 , 1166 , 1329 , 1411 , 1431 , 1481 , 1503 , 1534 and 1597 , the Council amended the statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia concerning the...

(2006), 1668

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1668

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1668, adopted unanimously on April 10, 2006, after recalling Resolution 1581 , the Council extended the term of Judge Joaquín Canivell at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia beyond his term of office to allow him to complete a...

(2006), 1800

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1800

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1800 was unanimously adopted on 20 February 2008.- Resolution :In order to enable the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to conduct additional trials as soon as possible and meet its completion strategy, the Security Council today...

(2008), 1837

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1837

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1837 was unanimously adopted on 29 September 2008.- Resolution :The Security Council this morning extended the terms of office of 4 Appeals Chamber judges as well as those of 10 permanent and 27 ad litem judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for...

(2008), 1849

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1849

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1849 was unanimously adopted on 12 December 2008.- Resolution :To enable the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to meet its completion strategy, the Security Council this morning authorized the Secretary-General to appoint, as a...

(2008), 1877

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1877

- Resolution :Urging the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to take all possible measures to complete its work expeditiously, the Security Council today extended the term of office of 11 permanent judges until 31 December 2010, or until the completion of the cases to which they were...

(2009) and 1900

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1900

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1900, adopted unanimously on December 16, 2009, after recalling resolutions 827 , 1581 , 1597 , 1613 , 1629 , 1660 , 1668 , 1800 , 1837 , 1849 and 1877 , the Council permitted several judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...

(2009), the Council, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace. It allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military and nonmilitary action to "restore international peace...

, allowed a temporary increase in judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...

(ICTY) to serve beyond the expiry of their term of office to enable them to complete work on cases in which they were involved.

The Council noted that, in its Resolution 1900, the number of judges could exceed the maximum of 12 provided for in the Statute of the International Tribunal to a maximum of 13, returning to 12 by the end of March 2010. However, due to unforeseen circumstances this would not occur due to a delay in the delivery of the judgement in the Popović case. In this regard, the Council was convinced of the advisability of permitting the temporary increase in the total number of ad litem judges.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, established in Resolution 827 (1993), was a United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts of the early 1990s

Yugoslav wars

The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...

that followed the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

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