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UN Security Council extends ICTR mandate
NEW YORK - The UN Security Council this week extended the mandate of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for another year till December 31, 2009. The ICTR was due to close at the end of 2008. However, in his recent report about its Completion Strategy, Dennis Byron, the President of the ICTR, had asked the Security Council for a one-year extension such that the court could clear its trials.