International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals' (IRMCT) Chief Prosecutor, Serge Brammertz will visit Sarajevo on June 19 to 21, as part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the UN Security Council (UNSC).

Prosecutor Brammertz will meet with Chief Prosecutor, Gordana Tadić to discuss the status of war crimes processing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, cooperation with and support from the Mechanism Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) and potential solutions to challenges in regional judicial cooperation in war crimes cases. The Prosecutor will also provide a briefing to members of the diplomatic community.

On June 20, Chief Prosecutor Brammertz will deliver keynote remarks at the conference “Stop Genocide and Holocaust Denial,” in which he will call attention to the ongoing denial of crimes and glorification of convicted war criminals in the region.

It is expected that Prosecutor Brammertz will present his next report to the UNSC on July 17, 2019.

The IRMCT is an international court established in December 2010 by the United Nations Security Council to perform the remaining functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) following the completion of those tribunals’ respective mandates.