United Nations Security Council Resolution 989 Explained

Number:	989
Organ:	SC
Date:	24 April
Year:	1995
Meeting:	3,524
Code:	S/RES/989
Document:	https://undocs.org/S/RES/989(1995)
For:	15
Abstention:	0
Against:	0
Subject:	Rwanda
Result:	Adopted

United Nations Security Council Resolution 989, adopted unanimously on 24 April 1995, after recalling Resolution 955 (1994), the council listed the nominations for judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.^[1]

The list of nominations was as follows:

• Lennart Aspegren (Sweden)
• Kevin Haugh (Ireland)
• Laïty Kama (Senegal)
• T. H. Khan (Bangladesh)
• Wamulungwe Mainga (Zambia)
• Yakov A. Ostrovsky (Russia)
• Navanethem Pillay (South Africa)
• Edilbert Razafindralambo (Madagascar)
• William H. Sekule (Tanzania)
• Anne Marie Stoltz (Norway)
• Jiri Toman (Czech Republic/Switzerland)
• Lloyd G. Williams (Jamaica/Saint Kitts and Nevis)

See also

• List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 901 to 1000 (1994–1995)
• Rwandan Civil War
• Rwandan genocide
• United Nations Observer Mission Uganda–Rwanda

External links

• • Text of the Resolution at undocs.org

Notes and References

1. Williamson. Jamie A.. 2006. An overview of the international criminal jurisdictions operating in Africa. International Review of the Red Cross. Cambridge University Press. 88. 111–131. 10.1017/S1816383106000075.