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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

RWANDA: ICTR hopes to mobilise international support through Swiss exhibition

NAIROBI, 26 March 2003 (IRIN) - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is holding an exhibition in the United Nations offices in Geneva on the theme of "challenging impunity".

The tribunal says the exhibition is to convey its efforts to "put an end, through international justice, to impunity of those responsible for genocide and contribute to national reconciliation in Rwanda".

The exhibition is intended to "inform the international community of the ICTR's mandate and achievements and to mobilise more concrete and active support from the international community to the work and endeavours of the ICTR".

The exhibition, which opened on 17 March and runs until 4 April, is part of the tribunal's Outreach Programme for the Rwandan population and the international community, and coincides with the 59th annual session of the UN Commission for Human Rights.

In his opening address, the director general of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Sergei Ordzhonkidze, welcomed the exhibition bringing the ICTR from its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania, to the international community.

Rwandan Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo appealed to the tribunal to pursue its work without forgetting to make Rwandans partners in the endeavors and progress of the ICTR.

Themes: (IRIN) Human Rights

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