United Nations Security Council Resolution 1915

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1915, adopted unanimously on March 18, 2010, after recalling resolutions 827 (1993), 1581 (2005), 1597 (2005), 1613 (2005), 1629 (2005), 1660 (2006), 1668 (2006), 1800 (2008), 1837 (2008), 1849 (2008), 1877 (2009) and 1900 (2009), the Council, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, allowed a temporary increase in judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to serve beyond the expiry of their term of office to enable them to complete work on cases in which they were involved.[1]

UN Security Council Resolution 1915
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Date	18 March 2010
Meeting no.	6,286
Code	S/RES/1915 (Document)
Subject	International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Voting summary	15 voted for None voted against None abstained
Result	Adopted
Security Council composition
Permanent members	China  France  Russia  United Kingdom  United States
Non-permanent members	Austria  Bosnia–Herzegovina  Brazil  Gabon  Japan  Lebanon  Mexico  Nigeria  Turkey  Uganda

The Council noted that, in its Resolution 1900, the number of judges could exceed the maximum of 12 provided for in the Statute of the International Tribunal to a maximum of 13, returning to 12 by the end of March 2010. However, due to unforeseen circumstances this would not occur due to a delay in the delivery of the judgement in the Popović case. In this regard, the Council was convinced of the advisability of permitting the temporary increase in the total number of ad litem judges.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, established in Resolution 827 (1993), was a United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts of the early 1990s that followed the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.