Judge Carmel A. Agius was yesterday elected as one of the 25 judges of the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
The election was held during the 87th Plenary Meeting of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
In this first election of the judges for the mechanism, Mr Justice Agius, who obtained the fourth highest number of votes out of 29 candidates, will serve a term of four years and is eligible for reappointment by the UN Secretary-General.
In October, Judge Carmel A. Agius was elected by acclamation as Vice-President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for a two-year term during an Extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the judges of the Tribunal.
Mr Justice Agius is currently an Appeals Chamber Judge of both the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). He was first elected by the General Assembly of the UN as Permanent Judge of the ICTY in 2001 and was re-elected in 2004.
The Mechanism will finish the work started by these two tribunals.