U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon will on
Wednesday appoint Norman Ferrell as the new Prosecutor of the Special Tribunal
for Lebanon and will name a Judge of the Appeals Chamber, highly informed
diplomatic sources told An Nahar daily.
Media reports said over the weekend
that Ban has informed Premier Najib Miqati about his decision to appoint
Ferrell, a Canadian, to succeed Daniel Bellemare as STL Prosecutor after he refused
a renewal of his mandate for health reasons.
Farrell was the Principal Legal
Officer in the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia’s Office
of the Prosecutor, a post he held from 2005. Previously, he was the Senior
Appeals Counsel and Head of the Appeals Section in the Office of the Prosecutor
for both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the ICTY.
The sources said Ban will also name
a Ugandan as Judge of the Appeals Chamber which was previously held by Judge
Antonio Cassese, the former president of the STL.
Judge Sir David Baragwanath was in
October last year unanimously elected as the court’s president following a
decision by Cassese to resign on health grounds.
Cassese, who died the same month,
had continued to serve as a Judge of the Appeals Chamber.
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