United Nations Security Council Resolution 1877

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UN Security Council Resolution 1877 was adopted unanimously on 7 July 2009. The council extended the term of office for 11 permanent judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) until 31 December 2010 or until the cases they are involved in are completed, whichever comes first. It also extended the terms of 19 ad litem judges to the same date. The council decided that, at the ICTY President’s request, the United Nations Secretary-General could appoint additional ad litem judges to help finish existing trials or start new ones. By 31 December 2009, the council would review the extension of the permanent judges who sit on the Appeals Chamber.

The ICTY, established in 1993, is a UN court that handles war crimes from the Balkans conflicts in the 1990s. On 4 June, the council heard briefings from ICTY officials, including Judge Patrick Robinson (the Tribunal’s President), Serge Brammertz (Prosecutor), and Thomas Mayr-Harting of Austria (Chairman of the council’s informal working group on the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda).