KIGALI, Feb. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The Rwandan government expects twenty five more genocide suspects to be transferred and faces local judicial courts, the Prosecutor General Jean de Dieu Mucyo said Monday.

    The government of Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) had initially agreed for the transfer of 40 suspects.

    The UN court last week handed over dossiers of 15 genocide suspects, who are part of a three-phase transfer process. The fifteen are still at large.

    Tribunal officials say the move will help the court expedite its work of prosecuting suspected leaders of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed. The UNcourt's mandate expires in 2008.

    Mucyo told reporters that the government of Rwanda was only waiting for the arrest warrant of the suspects, before they are brought to book.

    "What remains now is the issuance of the Arrest Warrant. I cannot specify when these people will be flown here but what I cantell you is that their locations have been identified," Mucyo said.

    Asked about the issue of sentences, he was reluctant to give details, only saying that both parties, the tribunal and the government, were "still discussing procedures."

    The Rwandan law allows for the death penalty while the maximum sentence under the UN is life imprisonment.

    He called upon other countries that still harbors the genocide suspects to hand them and faces courts of laws.

    The ICTR was established in 1998 to deal with the trials of theRwandan genocide suspects and accused. Enditem