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1 Thursday, 5 July 2012
2 [Status Conference]
3 [Open session]
4 [The appellant entered court]
5 --- Upon commencing at 3.31 p.m.
6 JUDGE MERON: Please be seated.
7 Registrar, would you please call the case.
8 THE REGISTRAR: Good afternoon, Your Honour.
9 This is case number IT-04-81-A, The Prosecutor versus
10 Momcilo Perisic.
11 JUDGE MERON: Thank you.
12 I want to make sure, first, that the audio equipment is working
13 properly.
14 Mr. Perisic, can you hear me? I take it you can hear me, right?
15 You cannot hear me?
16 THE APPELLANT: [Interpretation] I can hear now, yes.
17 JUDGE MERON: Thank you, Mr. Perisic.
18 I will call now for the appearances of the parties.
19 For the Prosecution, please.
20 MS. MARTIN SALGADO: Good afternoon, Your Honour. My name is
21 Elena Martin Salgado, and I'm appearing on behalf of the Prosecution with
22 Bronagh McKenna and Djurdja Mirkovic.
23 JUDGE MERON: Thank you.
24 Counsel for Mr. Perisic, please.
25 MR. LUKIC: [Interpretation] Good afternoon, Your Honour. Good
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1 afternoon to all the participants in the proceedings. My name is
2 Novak Lukic, attorney-at-law at law from Belgrade, and I shall represent
3 Mr. Perisic in this courtroom today.
4 JUDGE MERON: Thank you, Mr. Lukic.
5 As you are aware, Rule 65 ter (B) of the Rules of Procedure and
6 Evidence requires a Status Conference to be convened within 120 days
7 after the filing of a Notice of Appeal, and, thereafter, within 120 days
8 after the last Status Conference for each Appellant in the Tribunal's
9 custody.
10 A Status Conference serves two primary purposes. First, it
11 allows the Appellants an opportunity to express concerns relating to
12 their appeal or detention conditions. Second, it provides an opportunity
13 to update the Appellants with respect to the status of their case. The
14 Status Conference is also an opportunity for the Tribunal to inquire
15 about the mental and physical condition of the detained persons.
16 In the present case, the last Status Conference was held on
17 7 March 2012. Today's Status Conference was scheduled by an order --
18 order issued on 18 June 2012.
19 Let me therefore start the substantive part of this
20 Status Conference by inquiring into Mr. Perisic's health.
21 Mr. Perisic, if you prefer this discussion to be held in closed
22 session, please indicate and I will ...
23 THE APPELLANT: [Interpretation] Yes. I would like to speak in
24 closed session, please.
25 JUDGE MERON: Registrar, please close the session.
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13 JUDGE MERON: We are in open session, I take it, right?
14 THE REGISTRAR: Yes, Your Honour, we are now in open session.
15 Thank you.
16 JUDGE MERON: Thank you.
17 Now, I turn to the update of the case.
18 There is one confidential motion currently pending which will be
19 decided in due course. And I would like, at this stage, ask the parties
20 whether they have any other issues that they would like to raise with me
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22 Let me start from the Prosecution.
23 MS. MARTIN SALGADO: Thank you, Your Honour. We do not have any
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25 JUDGE MERON: Thank you.
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1 Mr. Lukic.
2 MR. LUKIC: [Interpretation] Your Honours, we have no issues to
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4 JUDGE MERON: Thank you, Mr. Lukic.
5 Since there are no other matters that any of the parties would
6 like to raise at this stage, it remains only for me to thank the parties
7 for their attendance, thank the interpreters and the Registry staff, and
8 I will call the proceedings to a close.
9 We will now rise.
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