Security Council resolution 1482 (2003) [on extension of the term of office of 4 non-elected permanent judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda]
Symbol: S/RES/1482(2003)
Date: 2003-05-19
Status: adopted
Agenda: S/58 [97] INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL--RWANDA
S/58 [95] RWANDA SITUATION
Subjects: Dolenc, Pavel|Maqutu, Winston Churchill Matanzima|Ostrovsky, Yakov Arkadyevich|Pillay, Navanethem|International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda > Members|Statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda (1994)|INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS|JUDGES|RWANDA SITUATION|REPORT PREPARATION
Votes in favour: 15
Votes against: 0
Abstentions: 0
Voting record:
country: ANGOLA
vote: yes
country: BULGARIA
vote: yes
country: CAMEROON
vote: yes
country: CHILE
vote: yes
country: CHINA
vote: yes
country: FRANCE
vote: yes
country: GERMANY
vote: yes
country: GUINEA
vote: yes
country: MEXICO
vote: yes
country: PAKISTAN
vote: yes
country: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
vote: yes
country: SPAIN
vote: yes
country: SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
vote: yes
country: UNITED KINGDOM
vote: yes
country: UNITED STATES
vote: yes

               United Nations                                                                    S/RES/1482 (2003)
               Security Council                                                Distr.: General
                                                                               19 May 2003




               Resolution 1482 (2003)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 4760th meeting,
               on 19 May 2003

                    The Security Council,
                     Taking note of the letter to the President of the Council from the Secretary-General dated 16 April 2003, attaching the letter to him from the President of the
               International Tribunal for Rwanda dated 26 March 2003 (S/2003/431),
                     Taking note also of the letter from the President of the Security Council to the
               President of the International Criminal Court dated 30 April 2003 and the reply from
               the Vice-President of the International Criminal Court dated 2 May 2003
               (S/2003/554), and of the letter from the President of the Security Council to the
               Secretary-General dated 30 April 2003 (S/2003/550) and the reply from the
               Secretary-General dated 8 May 2003 attaching the letter to him from the President
               of the International Tribunal for Rwanda dated 6 May 2003 (S/2003/551),
                    1.    Decides in response to the request by the Secretary General that:
                   (a) Judge Dolenc, once replaced as a member of the Tribunal, finish the
               Cyangugu case which he has begun before expiry of his term of office;
                     (b) Judge Maqutu, once replaced as a member of the Tribunal, finish the
               Kajelijeli and Kamuhanda cases which he has begun before expiry of his term of office;
                     (c) Notwithstanding Article 11, paragraph 1, of the Statute of the Tribunal
               and on an exceptional basis, Judge Ostrovsky, once replaced as a member of the
               Tribunal, finish the Cyangugu case which he has begun before expiry of his term of
               office;
                    (d) Judge Pillay, once replaced as a member of the Tribunal, finish the Media
               case which she has begun before expiry of her term of office;
                   2.    Takes note in this regard of the intention of the Tribunal to finish the
               Cyangugu case before the end of February 2004 and the Kajelijeli, Kamuhanda and
               Media cases before the end of December 2003;
                    3.    Requests the President of the Tribunal to provide it, by 1 August 2003, by
               15 November 2003 and by 15 January 2004, with reports on the progress of the
               cases referred to in paragraph 1 above.



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