ICTY Weekly Press Briefing - 24 June 2008

Date: 24.06.2008
Time: 12:00

Registry and Chambers:

Nerma Jelačić, Spokesperson for Registry and Chambers, made the following statement:

Good afternoon,

Last week Judge Fausto Pocar, the Tribunal's President, reported Serbia to the Security Council for its failure to meet its international obligations towards the Tribunal. The situation in terms of Serbia's non-compliance with the issue under consideration remains unchanged today. The Tribunal expects Serbia to meet it meet its obligations towards the Tribunal.

President Pocar was in Slovenia yesterday where he met with the country’s President, Dr Danilo Türk, Dr Dimitrij Rupel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr Janez Lenarčič, State Secretary and Head of the Government Office for European. Next month Mr Lenarčič will take over the helm of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with which the President initiated a joint project focusing on the support for national judicial authorities in the former Yugoslavia.

And it is a busy week in the courtooms. Milan Martić, the former leader of Croatian Serbs, will apear before the appeals chamber tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. and Thursday at 9:00 a.m. in courtroom I. Martic was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment for crimes including persecutions, murder and torture committed during the early nineties against Croats and other non-Serbs in Croatia.

The trials of Gotovina et al., Prlić et al., Popović et al., and Vojislav Šešelj will continue this week.

There will be a status conference in the Tolimir case next Monday, June 30 at 3 p.m. in courtroom III.

As a reminder, also next week at 09:00 on Thursday 3 July an appeals judgement is scheduled for Naser Orić, former senior commander of Bosnian Muslim forces in and around Srebrenica. Orić was convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for failing to take steps to prevent the murder and cruel treatment of a number of Serb prisoners in the former UN ‘safe area’.

Office of the Prosecutor:

Olga Kavran, Spokesperson for the Office of the Prosecutor, made no statement.

Questions:

No questions were asked.

Document List:

Case Description

Signature Date

Document Title

Zupljanin

23-Jun-08

Order Regarding Composition Of Trial Chamber

Zupljanin

23-Jun-08

Decision [By The Deputy Registrar Re: Assignment Of Duty Counsel]

Dordevic Vlastimir

20-Jun-08

Decision By The Deputy Registrar Regarding Assignment Of Counsel

Gotovina et Al.

20-Jun-08

Decision On Gotovina Defence Motion To Expand Scope Of Testimony For Witness 116

Gotovina et Al.

23-Jun-08

Defendant Ante Gotovina's Response To Prosecution's Submission Of Rule 92 Ter Statements And Associated Exhibits For Witness 86

Haxhiu (Contempt)

23-Jun-08

Prosecution's Submission Of Agreement On Admission Of Exhibits Between Prosecution And Accused Haxhiu With Confidential Annex A

Haxhiu (Contempt)

20-Jun-08

Defence Counsel Redacted Public Pre-Trial Brief

Haxhiu (Contempt)

20-Jun-08

Defense Counsel's Response To Prosecution's Motion To Add Exhibit To Exhibit List

Haxhiu (Contempt)

23-Jun-08

Prosecution's Submission Of Agreement On Facts Not In Dispute Between Prosecution And Accused Haxhiu With Confidential Annex A

Haxhiu (Contempt)

20-Jun-08

Decision On Motion Requesting Modification Of The Conditions Of Detention

Milutinovic et al.

23-Jun-08

Correspondence From Unicty President To The Un Security Council And Un Secretary General

Milutinovic et al.

20-Jun-08

Order Re Sreten Lukic's Request To Replace The Translation Of Exhibit 6d1460

Milutinovic et al.

20-Jun-08

Joint Prosecution And Defence Submission Regarding Exhibits P1085 And 4d138 - The Vj Rules Of Service

Petkovic (Contempt)

20-Jun-08

Ordonnance Aux Fins D'information Par Le Greffe Concernant L'assignation D'un Conseil À L'accusé

Popovic et al (interlocutory)

20-Jun-08

Reply To The Prosecution Response To Vujadin Popovic's Interlocutory Appeal Against The Decision On The Motion To Reopen The Prosecution Case

Prlic and Others (Interlocutory)

23-Jun-08

Petkovic Defence Reply To The Prosecution Response To The Petkovic Defence Appeal Against Guideline 5, Paragraph 14, In The 24 April 2008 Trial Chamber Decision Adopting Guidelines For The Presentation Of The Defence Case

Seselj

23-Jun-08

Décision Relative À La Requête Présentée Par L'accusé Visant L'annulation De Mesures De Protection (Document 389)

Simatovic and Stanisic (Interlocutory)

20-Jun-08

Defence Motion Pursuant To Rule 115 For Submission Of Additional Evidence With Two Annexes

Stanisic

20-Jun-08

Prosecution's Response To Defense Counsel's Urgent Motion And Supplement To Defense Counsel's Urgent Motion For Mico Stanisic's Provisional Release

Strugar et al. (Appeal)

23-Jun-08

Order To The Defence Of Pavle Strugar For Filing Of Medical Report

Zdravko Tolimir

23-Jun-08

Procès-Verbal (18x) Of Reception Of Document(S) Of The International Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia In Case No. It-05-88/2