Abubacarr Tambadou will be working at the United Nations as the registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, The Fatu Network understands.
The United Nations Secretary-General will on Monday announce Mr Tambadou as the Registrar (Assistant Secretary-General) of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, to be based in the Hague, Holland.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”) organisation of the United Nations is mandated to perform a number of essential functions previously carried out by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (“ICTR”) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (“ICTY”), according to information available on the Mechanism’s website. The Mechanism operates across two branches: one branch in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania, and the other in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The Registrar heads the Registry department of the organisation which provides administrative, legal, policy and diplomatic support services to all organs in both branches of the Mechanism.
According to the organisation’s website, the Registrar is appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and is the head of entity to whom the Secretary-General has delegated the managerial authority over the Mechanism’s human, financial and physical resources.
