Before: Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Presiding

Judge Elizabeth Odio Benito

Judge Saad Saood Jan

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 27 March 1997

PROSECUTOR

v.

TIHOMIR BLASKIC

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ORDER DENYING APPLICATION IN RESPECT OF THE ISSUES REGARDING SUBPOENAE DUCES TECUM

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To: The Office of the Prosecutor

To: The Republic of 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

THE TRIAL CHAMBER

HAVING CONSIDERED the Request of the Prosecutor in respect of Issues to be Briefed for the Hearing of 16 April 1997 in relation to Subpoenae Duces Tecum, filed on 20 March 1997 ("the Request"),

NOTING the response of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed on 25 March 1997 supporting the Request,

NOTING FURTHER the response of the Republic of Croatia submitted on 26 March 1997 objecting to the Request,

CONSIDERING the significance of the issues to be addressed at the hearing on 16 April 1997 and the objections raised by the Republic of Croatia,

PURSUANT TO RULE 54

HEREBY DENIES the Request and INSTRUCTS all parties addressed in this Order to submit their briefs and argument on the issues as set out in the Order regarding Subpoena Duces Tecum of 7 March 1997.

Gabrielle Kirk McDonald
Presiding Judge

Dated this twenty-seventh day of March 1997
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]