| UN Security Council Resolution 1786 | ||
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 Serge Brammertz | ||
| Date | 28 November 2007 | |
| Meeting no. | 5,785 | |
| Code | S/RES/1786 (Document) | |
| Subject | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | |
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| Result | Adopted | |
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1786 was unanimously adopted on 28 November 2007.
The Security Council this morning decided to appoint Serge Brammertz, former head of the international investigation into the assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister, as Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, starting 1 January 2008.
Unanimously adopting resolution 1786 (2007), the Council said that the four-year tenure for Mr. Brammertz was subjected to earlier termination depending on the completion of the Tribunal’s work, recalling that resolution 1503 (2003) had asked the court to take all possible measures to complete all trial activities at first instance by the end of 2008, and to finish all its work during 2010.
Mr. Brammertz, a former Belgian prosecutor, served as a Deputy Prosecutor with the International Criminal Court, before becoming the Commissioner of the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission into the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
At the Tribunal, he replaces Carla del Ponte, who notified Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier this year that she did not wish to be considered for another term as Prosecutor, according to a 12 November letter from Mr. Ban to the Council (document S/2007/678), which put forth Mr. Brammertz’ nomination for the position. [1]
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Detlev Mehlis is the Senior Public Prosecutor in the Office of the Attorney General in Berlin. He has 30 years of prosecutorial experience and has led numerous investigations into serious, complex transnational crimes. He has been a senior public prosecutor since 1992 and has, over the course of his career, been responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organized crime cases. Most notably, he investigated the bombing on the discotheque La Belle in then West-Berlin in 1986, which claimed the life of two US soldiers and a Turkish woman, and uncovered the involvement of the Libyan intelligence service. He also proved the involvement of the terrorist Carlos and Syrian diplomats in the attack on the French culture centre Maison de France, also in West-Berlin, in 1983, as well as the involvement of Syrian intelligence services in the bombing of a German-Arab social center in Berlin in 1986. Since 1998, Mehlis has been the Chief of the Contact Office of the European Judicial Network and Coordinator for the fight against organized crime in the State of Berlin.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1774 was unanimously adopted on 14 September 2007.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1815 was unanimously adopted on 2 June 2008.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1852 was unanimously adopted on 17 December 2008.
