International Criminal Tribunal for the former-Yugoslavia
Serge Brammertz, a Belgian prosecutor and law professor, has been nominated by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to succeed Carla del Ponte as Prosecutor of the ICTY. Del Ponte has held the position since 1999. Brammertz has served as the Deputy-Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and in June 2006 was appointed by the Secretary-General to head the International Investigation Commission into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
The Tribunal’s press briefing can be found here.