IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before: Judge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Presiding

Judge Elizabeth Odio Benito

Judge Saad Saood Jan

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 1 April 1997

PROSECUTOR

v.

TIHOMIR BLASKIC

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ORDER INVITING DEFENCE TO PARTICIPATE IN HEARING IN RESPECT OF THE ISSUES REGARDING SUBPOENAE DUCES TECUM

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To: The Office of the Prosecutor

To: Counsel for the Accused, Mr. Anto Nobilo and Mr. Russell Hayman

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

NOTING the Request for issuance of a subpoena duces tecum addressed to the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed on 28 February 1997 by the Defence, which Request was referred to Judge McDonald by Trial Chamber I on 18 March 1997,

NOTING that the issue of such subpoena may raise similar issues to those to be addressed at the hearing on 16 April 1997 between the Office of the Prosecutor, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia,

CONSIDERING the significance of the issues to be addressed at the hearing on 16 April 1997,

PURSUANT TO RULE 54

HEREBY INVITES the Defence to participate in the hearing on 16 April 1997 and to submit its brief on the issues by 7 April 1997 as set out in the Order regarding Subpoena Duces Tecum of 7 March 1997.

Elizabeth Odio-Benito
Judge, Trial Chamber II

Dated this first day of April 1997
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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