Judge Patrick Robinson of Jamaica was elected Tuesday to a two-year term as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the court said in a statement.

Robinson, 64, succeeds Italian judge Fausto Pocar. The new vice-president is to be Judge O-Gon Kwon, 55, of South Korea.

They will take up their duties on November 17.

Robinson was presiding over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic when the former Yugoslav president, on trial for genocide and war crimes, died in his cell in March 2006.