BEFORE A JUDGE OF THE TRIBUNAL

Before: Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo, Registrar

Decision of: 14 March 1997

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

TIHOMIR BLASKIC

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ORDER SUBMITTING THE MATTER TO TRIAL CHAMBER II AND INVITING AMICUS CURIAE

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To: The Office of the Prosecutor

To: Bosnia and Herzegovina, and

To: Defence Minister Ante Jelavic, the successor of the Custodian of the Records of the Central Archive of what was formerly the Ministry of Defence of the Croatian Community of Herceg Bosna

To: The Republic of Croatia, and

To: Defence Minister Gojko Susak, Ministry of Defence, Republic of Croatia


I, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia;

NOTING the Order Regarding Subpoena Duces Tecum dated 7 March 1997;

CONSIDERING the significance of the issues to be addressed on 16 April 1997 at 10 a.m.;

PURSUANT TO RULE 54,

ORDER that this matter be considered by the full Trial Chamber, comprising Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, presiding, Judge Elizabeth Odio-Benito and Judge Saad Saood Jan;

PURSUANT TO RULE 74,

INVITE requests for leave to submit amicus briefs by 7 April 1997 on the following issues:


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Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia


Dated this fourteenth day of March 1997
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]