THE prosecutor of the UN warcrimes and genocide tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Carla Del Ponte, said on Wednesday she would ask judges to hold some future trials directly in those countries. “It would be desirable that the (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – ICTR) could hold its trials directly in Kigali,” Carla Del Ponte told news conference in Arusha, the seat of the UN genocide tribunal for Rwanda. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is based in The Hague. Del Ponte noted that relations with Kigali were “now fine and the Rwandan Supreme Court is building a chamber which fulfils all the security conditions required by the ICTR”. “I have not yet asked the judges because I have not had time, but the decision lies with them and I will soon submit my proposal to them and to the UN Security Council at the end of March,” she said. Both tribunals were set up under resolutions of the United Nations.