First of all, the United States would like to express its appreciation to the Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly during the seventy-third session, Ambassadors Bahous and Mlynár. We very much appreciate their efforts to prepare a streamlined, …
The United States has historically been and will continue to be a strong supporter of meaningful accountability and justice for victims of atrocities through appropriate mechanisms. The perpetrators of atrocity crimes must face justice, but we must also be careful to recognize the right tool for eac…
As we reflect on the recent work of the Human Rights Council, we must all acknowledge that the body continues to fall far short of its potential laid out by the General Assembly in 2006.
Underpinning the problems affecting the Council is a broken membership selection process that permits such human…
I thank President Carmel Agius for his briefing on the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunal. We applaud and support his undying efforts towards justice. We commend President Agius’s continued focus on the core functions of the Mechanism: concluding residual judicial proceedings, tr…
