首先，我们期待完成我们2020年的大部分司法工作量，由此成为一个更加精简的余留机构。确实，除任何可能的上诉之外，余留机制预计在今后12个月内完成所有现有案件。要澄清的是，这并不意味着一旦完成这些案件，余留机制就将关闭。恰恰相反，余留机制被安全理事会赋予了发挥多种余留职能的任务，这些职能将延续到未来的许多年，除非安理会另行做出决定。因此，我应补充的是，在没有任何逃犯审理或审查程序的情况下，余留机制将有条件在2020年之后主要侧重于继续发挥其余留职能。由此，它将能够真正实现安全理事会为该机构描绘的愿景，即：“一个高效率的小型临时机构，其职能和规模将随时间推移逐渐缩减，并根据职能减少情况适当维持少量工作人员。”（第2422（2018）号决议，第5段）
First, we look forward to completing most of our judicial caseload in 2020, and to thereafter becoming a leaner residual institution. Indeed, with the exception of any potential appeals, the Mechanism expects to conclude all existing cases within the next 12 months. To clarify, that does not mean that the Mechanism will close once the cases are completed. On the contrary, the Mechanism was tasked by the Security Council to perform numerous residual functions that will continue for many years into the future unless the Council decides otherwise. The Mechanism will therefore be in a position to focus primarily on its continuous residual functions after 2020, in the absence, I should add, of any fugitive trials or review proceedings. In so doing, it will be able to truly fulfil the Security Council’s vision of the institution as a “small, temporary and efficient structure, whose functions and size will diminish over time, with a small number of staff commensurate with its reduced functions”. (resolution 2422 (2018), para. 5)