IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Mohamed Bennouna
Judge Patrick Robinson
Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh
Order of:
11 May 2000
PROSECUTOR
v.
DARIO KORDIC
MARIO CERKEZ
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ORDER ON EXHIBITS RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT
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The Office of the Prosecutor:
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Ms. Susan Somers
Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres
Mr. Kenneth Scott
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Mitko Naumovski, Mr. Leo Andreis, Mr. David F. Geneson, Mr. Turner T. Smith, Jr., Mr. Robert A. Stein, Mr. Stephen M.
Sayers and Ms. Ksenija Turkovic, for Dario Kordic
Mr. Bozidar Kovacic and Mr. Goran Mikulicic, for Mario Cerkez
THIS TRIAL CHAMBER of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 ("the International Tribunal"),
Proprio motu,
NOTING the oral instruction of the Trial Chamber of 8 March 2000 requiring the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") to submit to the Trial Chamber a document identifying those exhibits which, it is asserted, demonstrate the international character of the armed conflict in the region at the relevant of time of the indictment, and also identifying the particular parts of such documents on which they rely,
NOTING the submission made by the Prosecution in Annex 2 of its Response to the Defence Motion for Judgement of Acquittal, filed on 24 March 2000, listing the documents relating to the international character of the armed conflict upon which the Prosecution relies ("the Annex"),
NOTING also "Dario Kordic’s Response to Prosecution’s Submission Regarding International Armed Conflict" filed by the Defence for Dario Kordic on 7 April 2000,
NOTING that the Defence for Mario Cerkez has not filed any response to the Prosecution’s submission,
PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal
HEREBY ORDERS as follows:
the Prosecution shall, by Thursday 25 May 2000, file a copy of the exhibits listed in the Annex, duly marked to show the particular passages or portions of such documents upon which the Prosecution relies; and
the Defence for Dario Kordic and the Defence for Mario Cerkez shall each have until Thursday 1 June 2000 to file any further submissions as to the issues in dispute.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this eleventh day of May 2000
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]