Tribunal Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

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 1                           Monday, 16 February 2009

 2                           [Open session]

 3                           [The accused entered court]

 4                           --- Upon commencing at 2.14 p.m.

 5             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Good afternoon to everybody in and around the

 6     courtroom.  Madam Registrar, will you please call the case.

 7             THE REGISTRAR:  Good afternoon, Your Honours.  Good afternoon,

 8     everyone in and around the courtroom.  This is case number IT-04-81-T,

 9     the Prosecutor versus Momcilo Perisic.

10             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you so much.  Could we have appearances for

11     the day, starting with Prosecution.

12             MR. HARMON:  Good afternoon, Your Honours.  Good afternoon

13     counsel.  Appearing for the Prosecution today, Mark Harmon,

14     Ann Sutherland and Carmela Javier.

15             JUDGE MOLOTO:  And for the Defence.

16             MR. LUKIC:  [Interpretation] Good afternoon, Your Honours, and to

17     everyone who participants in the proceedings.  Mr. Perisic is today

18     represented by legal assistant, Tina Drolec; Milos Androvic; case

19     manager, Daniela Tasic; and Defence counsel, Gregor Guy-Smith; and Novak

20     Lukic.

21             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you very much, Mr. Lukic.  Mr. Harmon.

22             MR. HARMON:  Your Honour, may we go into private session now.

23             JUDGE MOLOTO:  May the Chamber please move into private session

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 1             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you.  Sorry, I was a bit remiss for the

 2     record.  Can we place it on the record that the Chamber is sitting

 3     pursuant to Rule 15 bis today as Chief Judge David is indisposed.

 4             Thank you.  We may move back into private session.

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10             THE REGISTRAR:  Your Honours, we are back in open session.

11             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you very much.  Can somebody help us with

12     the blind.

13             Mr. Harmon.

14             MR. HARMON:  Your Honour, that concludes our evidence for today.

15             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you so much.  One little housekeeping

16     matter.  Apparently tomorrow there is a slot in the morning, and there is

17     a desire to sit in the morning rather than in the afternoon; and I'm just

18     raising the question with everybody, apparently the question was raised

19     with the parties, but I'm not quite sure whether the interpreters were

20     consulted.  I just want to find out if it's possible and convenient for

21     everybody that we sit in the morning tomorrow?

22             THE INTERPRETER:  Yes, it is.

23             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you.  The English booth says yes it is.

24             THE INTERPRETER:  Yes, it is, Your Honour.

25             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you.

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 1             THE INTERPRETER:  Yes, it is, Your Honour.

 2             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Thank you so much.  Yes, Mr. Harmon.

 3             MR. HARMON:  Your Honour, I have an e-mail message here,

 4     Your Honour, I'm trying to read on that addressing that very same point

 5     so I want to provide you with input from the Prosecution on it.

 6             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Please do.

 7             MR. HARMON:  But the screen has just gone out, so if you bear

 8     with me for one minute.

 9             JUDGE MOLOTO:  We'll bear with you.

10             MR. HARMON:  The essence of the message that I caught a glimpse

11     of I'm not sure the Prosecution will be prepared in the morning, and I'm

12     in the process of Ms. Javier is sending an e-mail back to Mr. Thomas who

13     is going to be handling the witness tomorrow to determine what the status

14     of that is.  I just don't have the information now, Your Honour; and I'm

15     not in a position to provide it to you.  But from the e-mail message, the

16     message say that we would not quite be ready to start tomorrow in the

17     morning, and I'm not quite sure what "quite" means, so if I could advise

18     Mr. Blumenstock what our position is later this evening then I can give

19     you some guidance.  Right now I'm not able to do so.

20             JUDGE MOLOTO:  My only problem is that I got to be able to

21     adjourn to a specific time and everybody must know when to come, so it

22     looks like if you don't have any certainty, then I must apologise for

23     having raised people's hope that is we could sit in the morning and maybe

24     revert to afternoon session.

25             MR. HARMON:  Your Honour, I'm sorry I can't be more

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 2             JUDGE MOLOTO:  Okay.  In that event then, I'm sorry if I've

 3     raised anybody's hopes.  We'll then have to adjourn to tomorrow in the

 4     afternoon to quarter past 2.00, courtroom II.  Court adjourned.

 5                           --- Whereupon the hearing adjourned at 6.17 p.m.

 6                           to be reconvened on Tuesday, the 17th day of

 7                           February, 2009, at 2.15 p.m.

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